Patent ID: 8233388

Claim:
A system for controlling a flow of information content in a secure network, said system comprising: a tracking module, for storing: a sensitivity level of information content; and a location of said information content with respect to said system; wherein the tracking module is configured to statically track one or more locations of said information content responsive to a user input and dynamically track one or more locations of said information content responsive to reproduction commands or feedback from a discovery agent, or combinations thereof; a marking module that receives said sensitivity level from said tracking module upon a call for said information content to be packetized in a packet with a packet header, wherein said packet header is associated with transmission of said information content through a secure network, wherein said marking module appends a sensitivity tag to said packet header associated with said information content in the packet according to said sensitivity level; controlling said flow of said information content in the packet in said secure network according to said sensitivity tag; and not approving a routing transaction, wherein the routing transaction involves an unauthorized request for the information content or unauthorized sending of the information content to a non-controlled domain or combinations thereof based on the sensitivity tag; wherein said flow of said information content is controlled according to said sensitivity tag at Network Layer or Transport Layer.