Information Management System
First Claim
1. An information management system comprising:
- one or more workstations connected to a computer network, each workstation having a memory;
an application stored in said memory of each workstation for receiving inbound messages from said network and for transmitting a received message as an outbound message to said network;
policy data containing rules for determining one or more particulars of the outbound message, and for controlling the transmission of said outbound message in dependence on those particulars; and
an analyzer, said analyzer determining, in conjunction with said policy data, one or more particulars of the outbound message and selectively preventing the outbound message being forwarded to another recipient, or issuing a warning before a message is forwarded to another recipient, in dependence on the rules defined in said policy data.
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Abstract
An information management system is described comprising one or more workstations running applications which allow a user of the workstation to connect to a network, such as the Internet. Each application has an analyzer, which monitors transmission data that the application is about to transmit to the network or has just received from the network, and which determines an appropriate action to take regarding that data. The analyzer may consult policy data containing a supervisor-defined policy to govern the workstations in order to determine what action to take. Such actions may be extracting data from the transmission data, such as passwords and usernames, digital certificates or eCommerce transaction details for storage and record keeping; ensuring that the transmission data is transmitted at an encryption strength appropriate to the contents of the transmission data; determining whether a check needs to be made as to whether a digital certificate received in transmission is valid; determining whether a transaction about to be made by a user of one of the workstations needs third party approval before it is made; and controlling the transmission of messages, such as e-mails according to a policy.
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76 Claims
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1. An information management system comprising:
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one or more workstations connected to a computer network, each workstation having a memory; an application stored in said memory of each workstation for receiving inbound messages from said network and for transmitting a received message as an outbound message to said network; policy data containing rules for determining one or more particulars of the outbound message, and for controlling the transmission of said outbound message in dependence on those particulars; and an analyzer, said analyzer determining, in conjunction with said policy data, one or more particulars of the outbound message and selectively preventing the outbound message being forwarded to another recipient, or issuing a warning before a message is forwarded to another recipient, in dependence on the rules defined in said policy data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. An information management system comprising:
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one or more workstations connected to a computer network, each workstation having a memory; application means, stored in said memory of each workstation, for receiving inbound messages from said network and for transmitting a received message as an outbound message to said network; policy storage means for storing policy data containing rules for determining one or more particulars of the outbound message, said rules being for controlling the transmission of said outbound message in dependence on those particulars; and analyzing means, for determining, in conjunction with said policy data, one or more particulars of the outbound message and for selectively preventing the outbound message being forwarded to another recipient, or for issuing a warning before a message is forwarded to another recipient, in dependence on the rules defined in said policy data. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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39. A method of managing information comprising the steps of:
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providing one or more workstations connected to a computer network, each workstation having a memory; providing an application stored in said memory of each workstation for receiving inbound messages from said network and for transmitting a received message as an outbound message to said network; providing policy data containing rules for determining one or more particulars of the outbound message, and for controlling the transmission of said outbound message in dependence on those particulars; and analyzing said outbound message in conjunction with said policy data, to determine one or more particulars of said outbound message; and selectively preventing the outbound message being forwarded to another recipient, or issuing a warning before the outbound message is forwarded to another recipient, in dependence on the rules defined in said policy data and in dependence on said one or more particulars. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57)
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58. A computer software product, for controlling a computer to manage information, said computer being connected to a network and having access to policy data containing rules for controlling transmission of outbound data to the network, comprising a recording medium readable by the computer, having program code recorded thereon which when executed on said computer configures the computer to:
analyze in conjunction with an application running on said computer that transmits outbound messages to said network and receive inbound messages from said network, said outbound messages to determine in conjunction with said rules of said policy data one or more particulars of said outbound message, and selectively prevent the outbound message being forwarded to another recipient, or issue a warning before a message is forwarded to another recipient, in dependence on the rules defined in said policy data. - View Dependent Claims (59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76)
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