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Systems and methods for utilizing information-asset metadata aggregated from multiple disparate data-management systems

  • US 10,078,668 B1
  • Filed: 09/10/2014
  • Issued: 09/18/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/04/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for utilizing information-asset metadata aggregated from multiple disparate data-management systems, at least a portion of the method being performed by a first computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising:

  • receiving, by an electronic-discovery system executing on the first computing device, a request for information about one or more information assets of an entity whose metadata satisfies a metadata-search criterion, wherein;

    the information assets of the entity are;

    distributed across a plurality of information-asset sources of the entity; and

    managed by at least;

    a first data-management system that;



    executes on a second computing device;



    generates, by scanning at least one of the plurality of information-asset sources, metadata for at least a first portion of the information assets; and



    transmits, via an application programming interface of a remote metadata repository executing on a third computing device, metadata for the first portion of the information assets to the third computing device for storage in the remote metadata repository; and

    a second data-management system that;



    executes on a forth computing device;



    generates, by scanning at least one of the plurality of information-asset sources, metadata for at least a second portion of the information assets; and



    transmits, via the application programming interface, the metadata for the second portion of the information assets to the third computing device for storage in the remote metadata repository;

    the remote metadata repository stores the metadata for the first portion of the information assets and the metadata for the second portion of the information assets;

    the first data-management system and the second data-management system are different types of data-management systems that manage the information assets of the entity in different fields of data management; and

    the first data-management system, the second data-management system, the electronic-discovery system, and the remote metadata repository are separate and distinct systems that are capable of independent operation;

    querying, by the electronic-discovery system via the application programming interface, the remote metadata repository for information about one or more of the information assets whose metadata satisfies the metadata-search criterion;

    receiving, by the electronic-discovery system via the application programming interface of the remote metadata repository, information about at least one information asset whose metadata satisfies the metadata-search criterion;

    utilizing, at the electronic-discovery system, scanning efforts of the first data-management system or the second data-management system to discover the at least one information asset without scanning any of the plurality of information-asset sources by using the information, received from the remote metadata repository, about the information asset whose metadata satisfies the metadata-search criterion to discover the at least one information asset; and

    responding, by the electronic-discovery system, to the request using the information about the information asset.

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