Patent ID: 8458263
Filing Date: 2013-06-04
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for use in a computer system comprising a message handling system that manages a plurality of electronic messages, a message archive system and an archive verification unit, wherein the message archive system includes a message archive for archiving at least some of the plurality of messages, the method comprising: (A) receiving, by the archive verification unit, a plurality of message identifiers, each of the message identifiers is generated by applying a first function to at least a portion of the message when the message was archived and uniquely identifies one of the plurality of messages; (B) applying, by the archive verification unit, one or more rules to determine that some of the plurality of messages in the group should not be archived and some of the plurality of messages in the group should be archived; (C) determining, by the archive verification unit, that some of the message identifiers of the plurality of messages in the group that should be archived do not have corresponding message identifiers on the message archive system by applying the first function to each of the plurality of messages in the group to generate a message identifier that is used to compare to the message identifier for the archived message; and (D) providing, from the archive verification unit, a report identifying the plurality of messages in the group that should be archived that do not have the corresponding message identifiers on the message archive.