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Systems and methods for protecting email data

  • US 10,671,566 B2
  • Filed: 03/16/2017
  • Issued: 06/02/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A networked data storage system for protecting email data using email protection rules, the system comprising:

  • at least one client computing device comprising a first application configured to generate emails;

    a second computing device comprising one or more hardware processors;

    one or more email protection rules provided in at least one storage device, the email protection rules comprising criteria,wherein an email server application transmits emails generated by the first application to recipients, and additionally transmits at least some of the emails generated by the first application for processing by the one or more hardware processors of the second computing device,wherein the one or more hardware processors of the second computing device are programmed to;

    receive at least a first email from the email server application; and

    based at least partly on the criteria of the email protection rules, identify a secondary storage computing device of a plurality of secondary storage computing devices to which to transmit the first email received from the email server application,wherein subsequent to identification of the secondary storage computing device by the one or more hardware processors of the second computing device, the first email is transmitted to the identified secondary storage computing device for processing as part of an operation in which a secondary copy of the first email is created and stored.

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