Patent ID: 8112406
Filing Date: 2012-02-07
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An electronic discovery apparatus for communicating both electronic discovery collection requests, in which data are collected from one or more data sources, and hold requests, in which one or more data sources are instructed to preserve certain data, in connection with discovery of electronically stored evidence, comprising: a plurality of data sources comprising said electronically stored evidence; a hardware connector comprising an interface and a plurality of services for performing operations on said data sources; and an electronic discovery management application (EMA) embodied in a hardware module for managing collections and holds, said EMA communicating with said data sources via said connector by calling said connector services, wherein said EMA communicates collection and hold requests to said data sources, and collects said electronically stored evidence from said data sources, said EMA further comprising any of a uni-directorial communications module and a bi-directorial communications module, with which all service calls are initiated by said EMA, and with which said connector only responds to service calls from said EMA, said uni-directorial module further comprising: