Patent ID: 7330981
Filing Date: 2008-02-12
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of using a file management component to protect a file, the method comprising: receiving a file from an object; using a data storage system to seal the file to the file management component, said data storage system being enabled to receive data from a specified category of components and to seal received data to one or more of said components, wherein the data cannot be unsealed by any component to which the data is not sealed, the file management component being one of said specified category of components; restricting access to said file based on whether an object that issues a request for the file is authorized to open said file, a determination as to whether said object that issues the request being made is authorized by the file management component which causes the file to be unsealed from said data storage system; and if said object that issues the request for the file is authorized to open said file, determining if the use of said file is to be monitored.