Patent ID: 8380696

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of classifying an object in an object classification system, the method comprising: (A) storing a first value that indicates the object is to be dynamically classified; (B) in response to a request from at least one application to access the object, and prior to granting the request to access the object, applying at least one security classification rule, via at least one computer, that dynamically classifies the object based on at least one piece of information received from a user or at least one piece of information automatically gathered without being received from the user; (C) change the first value to a second value that indicates the object is not to be dynamically classified; and (D) in response to a second request to access the object and after the first value has been changed to the second value, grant or deny the second request based on a classification of the object, wherein the classification of the object is made before the second request, and the second request is granted or denied without reapplying the at least one security classification rule because of the second value that indicates the object is not to be dynamically classified.