Patent Document ID: 8271451
Application ID: 12860908

Base Claim:
1. A method for record archive disposition implemented with a computer system comprising one or more computer processors operatively connected to memory, the method comprising: storing in memory archival records, each archival record being associated with at least one archival record metadata attribute; storing in memory at least one or more legal holds, each legal hold having legal hold metadata attributes; generating with at least one of the processors a deletion candidate list for at least one record type by: including on the deletion candidate list archival records identified as having one or more archival record metadata attributes corresponding to the at least one record type; excluding from the deletion candidate list identified archival records if a selected set of legal hold metadata attributes for at least one legal hold corresponds to at least a subset of metadata attributes for the identified archival records; and deleting from memory archival records included on the deletion candidate list.

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Claim 5:
5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the legal hold metadata attributes include one or more entities subject to the legal hold, one or more record types defining the subject matter scope of the legal hold, and/or a geographic scope of the legal hold.