Patent ID: 8505068

Claim:
At a network system within an organization, the network system including one or more processors and system memory, the network system also including a user application, an organizational application, a policy selection module, and a policy evaluation module, a method for expressly assigning rights to protected content to an application in another organization, the method comprising: an act of formulating an information protection policy for protected content residing within the organization, the information protection policy granting rights in the protected content to an entity in the other organization; an act of determining that the protected content is to be delivered to the other organization; in response to determining that the protected content is to be delivered to the other organization: an act of identifying implicit rights that another application in the other organization has in the protected content based at least in part on the formulated information protection policy for the protected content, the identified implicit rights previously not being expressly granted in the formulated information protection policy; and an act of updating the information protection policy into an updated information protection policy to expressly grant the other application rights in the protected content, the expressly granted rights representative of the identified implicit rights for the other application, such that the information protection policy now includes expressly granted rights, not previously expressly granted, which correspond to the identified implicit rights; and an act of delivering the protected content to the other organization.