Systems and methods for dynamically adjusting a taxonomy used to categorize digital assets

• US 20060106862A1
• Filed: 11/17/2005
• Published: 05/18/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Iron Mountain Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Iron Mountain Incorporated
• Inventors: Barnes, Matthew, Blumenau, Steven, Passmore, Dale
• Application Number:
  US11/282,788
• Publication Number:
  US 20060106862A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/125 characterised by the use of retention policies retention policies for HSM systems G06F16/185
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/14 Details of searching files based on file metadata
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/182 Distributed file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/16 Program or content traceability, e.g. by watermarking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2101 Auditing as a secondary aspect
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2135 Metering
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2137 Time limited access, e.g. to a computer or data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2143 Clearing memory, e.g. to prevent the data from being stolen
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/913 Multimedia
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing

Abstract

Systems and methods for managing digital assets in a distributed computing environment are described. Meta-data for the digital assets is stored separately from the digital assets. Meta-data for some of the digital assets is copied and stored at a central location. Meta-data for the digital assets is generated by clients of the system.

Claims

1. A method of classifying digital assets in a computing system, the method comprising:

(a) creating, by a client, a digital asset;

(b) presenting at least one tag of an adaptive taxonomy to an end-user of the client, the at least one tag describing a classification of the digital asset and having a first associated policy that is applied to the digital asset when the at least one tag is associated with the digital asset; and

(c) providing the end-user with a graphical user interface when the end-user performs a specified action, the graphical user interface allowing the end-user to create an alias for the at least one tag, the alias associated with the tag and having a second policy.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the first policy and the second policy are substantially similar.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the first policy and the second policy are different.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the presenting occurs during the creation of the digital asset.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the presenting occurs after the creation of the digital asset.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising transmitting the alias to a central location for review by an administrator.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising accepting the alias by the administrator thereby making the alias accessible to a second end-user.

8. The method of claim 6 further comprising rejecting the alias by the administrator thereby making the alias unavailable to a second end-user.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising checking for the existence of the alias.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising presenting an existing alias along with the tag to end-user.

11. A system for classifying digital assets in a computing system, the system comprising:

(a) a server connected to a network; and

(b) a client in communication with the server, the client creating a digital asset, presenting at least one tag of an adaptive taxonomy to an end-user of the client, the at least one tag describing a classification of the digital asset and having a first associated policy that is applied to the digital asset when the at least one tag is associated with the digital asset, and providing the end-user with a graphical user interface when the end-user performs a specified action, the graphical user interface allowing the end-user to create an alias for the at least one tag, the alias associated with the tag and having a second policy.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein the first policy and the second policy are substantially similar.

13. The system of claim 11 wherein the first policy and the second policy are different.

14. The system of claim 11 wherein the client presents the graphical user interface during the creation of the digital asset.

15. The system of claim 11 wherein the client presents the graphical user interface after the creation of the digital asset.

16. The system of claim 11 further wherein the client transmits the alias to the server for review by an administrator.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein the administrator accepts the alias at the server thereby making the alias accessible to a second end-user.

18. The system of claim 16 wherein the administrator rejects the alias at the server thereby making the alias unavailable to a second end-user.

19. The system of claim 11 wherein the client or the server checks for the existence of the alias.

20. The system of claim 11 wherein the client presents an existing alias along with the tag to end-user.

21. A computer readable medium having executable instructions thereon to classify digital assets in a computing system, the computer readable medium comprising:

(a) instructions to create, by a client, a digital asset;

(b) instructions to present at least one tag of an adaptive taxonomy to an end-user of the client, the at least one tag describing a classification of the digital asset and having a first associated policy that is applied to the digital asset when the at least one tag is associated with the digital asset; and

(c) instruction to provide the end-user with a graphical user interface when the end-user performs a specified action, the graphical user interface allowing the end-user to create an alias for the at least one tag, the alias associated with the tag and having a second policy.

22. The computer readable medium of claim 21 wherein the first policy and the second policy are substantially similar.

23. The computer readable medium of claim 21 wherein the first policy and the second policy are different.

24. The computer readable medium of claim 21 wherein the instructions to present comprise instructions to present during the creation of the digital asset.

25. The computer readable medium of claim 21 wherein the instructions to present comprise instructions to present after the creation of the digital asset.

26. The computer readable medium of claim 21 further comprising instructions to transmit the alias to a central location for review by an administrator.

27. The computer readable medium of claim 26 further comprising instructions to make the alias accessible to a second end-user when the administrator accepts the alias.

28. The computer readable medium of claim 26 further comprising instructions to make the alias not accessible to a second end-user when the administrator rejects the alias.

29. The computer readable medium of claim 21 further comprising instructions to check for the existence of the alias.

30. The computer readable medium of claim 21 further comprising instructions to present an existing alias along with the tag to end-user.