Patent ID: 8250037

Claim:
A method of collecting data from a shared drive for an electronic discovery system, comprising: sending, by a processing device, a request for the location of data on the shared drive through the electronic discovery system, and wherein the shared drive is a third party shared drive; receiving, by the processing device, a response indicating the location of the data on the shared drive through the electronic discovery system; identifying, by the processing device, the location of data at a node in a shared drive, wherein the data is data at the node location and all of the associated hierarchal data located below the node; capturing, by the processing device, the data from the shared drive; reassembling, by the processing device, the data captured into usable data with a file name that can be identified and searched by the electronic discovery system based on a custodian, case, or data; transferring, by the processing device, the data to the electronic discovery system.