Patent ID: 8950009
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for providing information management of data objects from hosted services, comprising: providing a user interface, to an information management system, to enable a user to identify or access each of multiple hosted accounts provided by multiple, different hosted services, wherein the hosted services provide access, over a public network, to data objects associated with the user; wherein the data objects are accessible to the user via the hosted accounts provided by the hosted services; wherein the computing device includes or accesses the information management system, wherein the information management system manages data for the computing device and for other computing devices; and, wherein the information management system creates copies of data objects from the computing devices and stores the copies to secondary storage devices in accordance with information management policies for the information management system; receiving definitions for an information management policy to be applied to the multiple hosted accounts via the user interface, wherein the information management policy identifies at least one type of data object and a data storage policy for making copies of that type of data object; requesting copies of the data objects from the hosted services via the multiple hosted accounts in accordance with the information management policy for the multiple hosted accounts; receiving the copies of the data objects from the hosted services in response to the request; and performing information management operations on the copies of the data objects, with the information management system, in accordance with the information management policy.