Patent ID: 8849858
Filing Date: 2014-09-30
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of operating an information management system comprising: providing a plurality of devices coupled to a network of the information management system, wherein a plurality of users can log into the information management system using the devices; determining whether to allow operations performed by the users using the plurality of devices, wherein the determining whether to allow the operations comprises: analyzing collected usage information on the operations performed by the users using the plurality of devices, where in the collected usage information further comprises: analyzing the relevant usage information comprising allowed requested operations to detect when a first user has attempted more than X accesses to documents of the information management system during a Y time period, where X divided by Y is a value Z, and X, Y, and Z are numbers, and wherein the Y time period has a first time and a second time, wherein the first time is at a time of a first attempt to access the documents, and the second time is one of the first time plus a length of time of the Y time period or the first time minus the length of time of the Y time period; and if a number of attempts by the user to access documents of the information management system during the Y time period is greater than a threshold value T, blocking the first user from accessing one or more documents of the information management system.