Patent ID: 8825611

Claim:
A method for dynamically sharing information, the method comprising: formatting a data file to be shared with a receiving entity into a data object including a file data portion and a sharing metadata portion; executing a sharing policy indicating when to share the data object responsive to an occurrence of an event; encrypting the data object; and automatically transmitting the data object to the receiving entity upon occurrence of the event, wherein the sharing metadata portion includes metadata characterizing the data file and referenced in connection with the sharing policy to determine when to automatically transmit the data object to the receiving entity; wherein the sharing metadata portion includes visibility attributes that determine if the receiving entity may view content portions of the data file without prompting by the receiving entity; and wherein executing the sharing policy indicating when to share the data object responsive to the occurrence of the event comprises: monitoring for the occurrence of the event from a plurality of different events; determining recipients of need-to-know information based on a type of the event; and selecting the data file as need-to-know information, if the metadata associated with the data file identifies at least one of the recipients of the need-to-know information for sharing with a variety of different recipients based on which one of the plurality of different events occurs.