Patent ID: 7792757

Claim:
A risk-based computer-implemented method for storing digital assets in a distributed digital asset management environment, the method comprising: (a) receiving, by a server from a client, an asset identification tag associated with an original version of a digital asset which is initially created and stored on the client; (b) identifying, by the server and in response to receiving the asset identification tag, a risk-management policy corresponding to the client and security of the digital asset stored on the client; (c) executing an action dictated by the risk-management policy; (d) transmitting, by the server to the client, a transfer command which identifies the digital asset and directs the client to transfer the digital asset from the client to the server; and (e) obtaining, by the server from the client, a copy of the digital asset while the client concurrently deletes the original version of the digital asset in response to the transfer command; wherein the client is a portable laptop computer; wherein the server is a secure datacenter; wherein the asset identification tag received by the server from the client indicates that the digital asset has a given priority; wherein identifying the risk-management policy includes: selecting, as the risk-management policy, a risk-based policy which compares the given priority of the digital asset to a predetermined priority threshold; and wherein executing the action dictated by the risk-management policy includes: comparing the given priority of the digital asset to the predetermined priority threshold, and concluding that the digital asset should be removed from the portable laptop computer to the secure datacenter in response to comparing the given priority of the digital asset to the predetermined priority threshold.