Patent ID: 8219974
Filing Date: 2012-07-10
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. Software for managing legal holds on objects, the software comprising computer readable instructions embodied on non-transitory tangible media and operable to: identify a target object to associate with a particular legal hold; determine a hash value using data associated with the target object; determine a primary key for the target object using the hash value, the primary key comprising a unique identifier for the target object in a centralized lookup table, the centralized lookup table comprising a plurality of hold records for objects of different types; automatically communicate with the centralized lookup table using the primary key for the target object to verify a hold record associated with the target object; identify an additional target object to associate with the particular legal hold, the additional target object having a different type than the target object; automatically communicate with a decentralized lookup table to verify an additional hold record associated with the additional target object, the decentralized lookup table comprising a first lookup table associated with a first object type and a second lookup table associated with a second object type and wherein verifying the additional hold record comprises: identifying an object type of the additional target object; and automatically communicating with the first lookup table or the second lookup table based on the identified object type.