Delegating resembling data of an organization to a linked device

• US 10,061,836 B2
• Filed: 06/04/2013
• Issued: 08/28/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Varonis Systems, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Varonis Systems Ltd. (Varonis Systems, Inc.)
• Inventors: Faitelson, Yakov, Korkus, Ohad, Kretzer-Katzir, Ophir
• Primary Examiner(s): Casanova, Jorge A
• Application Number:
  US13/909,107
• Publication Number:
  US 20140358921A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,911 Days
• Field of Search: 707737
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification

Abstract

A computerized method for pooling objects in a computerized system having a storage for objects, comprising identifying in the computerized system objects having an at least one common metadata entity associated with the objects, and including the identified objects in a pool of objects, and an apparatus for performing the same.

Claims

1. A computerized method for sending pooled objects from a computerized system to a remote computer, the method comprising:

in a computerized system, comprising a processor and a storage of objects, and configured to communicate with a remote computer over a communication network, receiving by the processor a request from a user at the remote computer for objects stored in the storage based on objects identified in a search for contents thereof by a search phrase or a search criteria;

using the processor, identifying objects in the storage based on the request by the user;

using the processor, identifying based on one or more rules, resembling objects in the storage objects having at least one common metadata entity;

virtually pooling the objects by the processor, into a plurality of pools according to metadata entities thereof common among groups of the identified resembling objects based on the one or more rules, and another pool in the plurality of pools based on the identified objects in the search, regardless of at least partial overlapping between pools in the plurality of pools; and

transferring by the processor, the pooled objects in the plurality of pools to the remote computer over the communication network, so as to provide a rapid access to the pooled objects by the user at the remote computer,

wherein the objects have metadata entities that are pre-assigned and associated therewith by parties of the computerized system having sufficient authorization thereto.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the objects are pooled according to a combination of the one or more rules for objects and associated metadata entities thereof.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the metadata entities common among groups of the objects comprise at least one of permissions for users to the objects, access history by users to the objects, classification of the objects, category of the objects, owner of the objects, creator of the objects, archive of the objects, and at least a part of names of the objects.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising enabling access to the pooled objects in the plurality of pools when the user does not have sufficient rights to access at least one of the pooled objects in the plurality of pools.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising enabling local access to the transferred objects on the remote computer.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein virtually pooling the objects is based on at least one common permission for different users to the objects.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein virtually pooling the objects is based on similar access history per different users.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein virtually pooling the objects is based on at least one common metadata entity selected from a group consisting of:

the same category, the same classification, including identical data, and including mutual data.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the computerized system comprises an enterprise.

10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising receiving by the processor the one or more rules set by an administrator or by a program operation.

13. The method according to claim 1, further comprising enabling access in the computerized system to all the objects in the plurality of pools by the user having sufficient rights to access at least one of the objects in the plurality of pools, while having insufficient rights to access other objects in the plurality of pools.

11. A computerized system for sending pooled objects to a remote computer, the computerized system comprising:

at least one storage device; and

at least one processor configured to communicate with a remote computer over a communication network, to receive a request from a user at the remote computer for objects stored in the at least one storage device based on objects identified in a search for contents thereof by a search phrase or a search criteria, to identify objects in the storage based on the request by the user, to identify based on one or more rules, resembling objects in the storage objects having at least one common metadata entity, to virtually pool the objects into a plurality of pools according to metadata entities thereof common among groups of the identified resembling objets based on the one or more rules, and another pool in the plurality of pools based on the identified objects in the search, regardless of at least partial overlapping between pools in the plurality of pools, and to transfer the pooled objects in the plurality of pools to the remote computer over the communication network, so as to provide a rapid access to the pooled objects by the user at the remote computer, wherein the objects have metadata entities that are pre-assigned and associated therewith by parties of the computerized system having sufficient authorization thereto.

12. The computerized system according to claim 11, wherein the at least one processor is configured for enabling access to the pooled objects in the plurality of pools when the user does not have sufficient rights to access an at least one of the objects in the plurality of pools.

14. The computerized system according to claim 11, wherein the at least one processor is configured for enabling access to all objects in the plurality of pools by the user having sufficient rights to access at least one of the objects in the plurality of pools, while having insufficient rights to access other objects in the plurality of pools.

15. The computerized system apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the at least one processor is configured for enabling local access to the transferred objects on the remote computer.

16. The computerized system according to claim 11, wherein the at least one processor is configured for virtually pooling the objects is based on at least one common permission for different users to the objects.

17. The computerized system according to claim 11, wherein the at least one processor is configured for virtually pooling the objects is based on similar access history per different users.

18. The computerized system according to claim 11, wherein the at least one processor is configured for virtually pooling the objects is based on at least one common metadata entity selected from a group consisting of the same category, the same classification, including identical data, and including mutual data.

19. The computerized system according to claim 11, wherein the computerized system is an enterprise.

20. The computerized system according to claim 11, wherein the at least one processor is configured to receive the one or more rules set by an administrator or by a program operation.