Patent ID: 8856175

Claim:
A method for managing business transaction documents, comprising: authorizing, with a processor, a first monitoring administrator and a second monitoring administrator to access system usage data of a document or set of documents from a database stored on or otherwise accessible by the processor, wherein the first and second monitoring administrators are under a same system administrator of the database; authorizing, with the processor, a plurality of users to access the document or set of documents from the database and generate system usage data corresponding to each of the users, wherein the first monitoring administrator commands the processor to authorize a first subset of the users and the second monitoring administrator commands the processor to authorize a second subset of the users, wherein the first monitoring administrator does not have the ability to deny access to the document or set of documents to the second subset of the users and the second monitoring administrator does not have the ability to deny access to the document or set of documents to the first subset of the users; associating a first unique identifier with each of the users in the first subset of users and associating a second unique identifier with each of the users of the second subset of users, with the processor, wherein the first unique identifier is associated with the first monitoring administrator authorized to access the system usage data corresponding to each of the users in the first subset of the users, wherein the second unique identifier is associated with the second monitoring administrator authorized to access the system usage data corresponding to each of the users in the second subset of the users, storing the system usage data generated by each of the users; providing the system usage data associated with any of the users associated with the first unique identifier to the first monitoring administrator; providing the system usage data associated with any of the users associated with the second unique identifier to the second monitoring administrator; and deleting the system usage data of the document or set of documents for one or more of the users after a defined time period, upon completion of a transaction associated with the document or set of documents, or upon finalization of the document or set of documents.