Patent ID: 7617261

Claim:
A computer-readable-document archive system comprising: storage media for archiving computer-readable documents; an input interface for receiving documents to be archived; an output interface; a content integrity manager application that instructs a processor to perform actions comprising: (a) determining whether documents pertaining to a transaction have been received by the input interface based upon a comparison of at least data identifying a set of documents required for the transaction and data identifying documents associated with the transaction that have been received, and (b) transmitting a notification signal via the output interface, if at least one document in the set of documents has not been received; an event integrity manager application that instructs a processor to perform actions comprising: (a) executing predetermined events triggered by characteristics of the documents stored on the storage media, (b) recording results of the execution of the predetermined events, (c) determining whether the predetermined events have been executed successfully based upon a comparison of at least data identifying the predetermined events and the recorded results, and (d) transmitting a notification signal via the output interface, if at least one predetermined event did not successfully execute; and a document destruction integrity manager application that instructs a processor to perform actions comprising: (a) generating a document retention schedule, (b) interfacing with the retention schedule, (c) interfacing with an archive storage system, and (d) destroying the documents.