Patent ID: 9069751
Filing Date: 2015-06-30
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system for managing the pedigrees of electronic documents, comprising: a non-transitory memory having a plurality of electronic documents stored therein, wherein each electronic document in the plurality of electronic documents is associated with an envelope stored in the memory, and wherein each envelope comprises a pedigree identifier (PID), and wherein each PID comprises a document identifier (DID), a last access identifier (LID) and a current access identifier (CID); a non-transitory storage area having a plurality of pedigree entries stored therein, wherein one or more pedigree entries are associated with one of the plurality of electronic documents and each pedigree entry comprises context information about an access to the associated electronic document, and wherein each pedigree entry also comprises an associated pedigree identifier (PID) that identifies the associated electronic document with a DID, identifies the access to the associated electronic document with a CID, and identifies an immediately prior access with an LID; a pedigree manager; and a client device operable by a user to: wherein the pedigree manager is configured to, on one or more computing devices: