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 transmitting outbound data to said network and receiving inbound data from said network;
policy data containing rules for determining one or more particulars of the outbound data, and for controlling the transmission of said outbound data in dependence on those particulars; and
an analyser, said analyser determining, in conjunction with said policy data, one or more particulars of the outbound data and controlling the transmission of said data according to 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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60 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 transmitting outbound data to said network and receiving inbound data from said network; policy data containing rules for determining one or more particulars of the outbound data, and for controlling the transmission of said outbound data in dependence on those particulars; and an analyser, said analyser determining, in conjunction with said policy data, one or more particulars of the outbound data and controlling the transmission of said data according to said policy data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. 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 transmitting outbound data to said network and receiving inbound data from said network; policy storage means containing rules for determining one or more particulars of the outbound data, and for controlling the transmission of said outbound data in dependence on those particulars; and analysing means for determining, in conjunction with said policy means, one or more particulars of the outbound data and controlling the transmission of said data according to said policy data. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. 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 transmitting outbound data to said network and receiving inbound data from said network; providing policy data containing rules for determining one or more particulars of the outbound data, and for controlling the transmission of said outbound data in dependence on those particulars; analysing, in conjunction with said policy data, said outbound data to determine one or more particulars of the outbound message; and controlling the transmission of said data according to said policy data, and said one or more particulars. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45)
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46. 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:
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analyse, in conjunction with an application that is running on the computer and that transmits outbound data to said network and receives inbound data from said network, said outbound data to determine in conjunction with said rules of said policy data one or more particulars of said outbound data; and control the transmission of said data according to said policy data and said one or more particulars of said outbound message. - View Dependent Claims (47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60)
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