Patent ID: 8726351
Filing Date: 2014-05-13
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system for establishing and maintaining a plurality of records and/or documentary materials to be persisted in, and accessible from, an electronic archives system, comprising: safeguarding programmed logic circuit means configured to safeguard each said record and/or documentary material throughout its entire lifecycle including record and/or documentary material of enduring historic value that must be retained forever, by monitoring and recording both intended changes to each said record and/or documentary material and its corresponding status, as well as unintended changes to each said record and/or documentary material; extracting and preserving programmed logic circuit means configured to extract and preserve context and structure associated with each said record and/or documentary material; custody programmed logic circuit means configured to establish and preserve uninterrupted proof-of-custody including at least a source for each said record and/or documentary material throughout its entire lifecycle; essential characteristic programmed logic circuit means configured to capture and preserve essential characteristics of each said record and/or documentary material throughout its lifecycle in dependence on one or more changeable definitions of essential characteristic; transformation means for continually transforming said record and/or documentary material of enduring historic value that must be retained forever to persistent non-delete formats; at least one storage location configured to store the plurality of records and/or documentary materials and all preserved information; and access control means programmed to allow a user access to the system based on one or more user attributes and/or one or more object attributes.