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 computer network and receiving inbound data from said computer network;
policy data, containing rules for identifying in outbound data transaction data that is part of a commercial transaction, and rules for the transmission of transaction data so identified; and
an analyzer, said analyzer identifying, in conjunction with said policy data, in at least said outbound data, transaction data associated with part of a transaction, and making a determination in accordance with said rules of said policy data as to whether the transmission of said transaction data would satisfy said rules; and
wherein the transmission of said transaction data by said application is dependent on said determination made by said analyzer.
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Abstract
An information management system is described comprising one or more workstations running applications to 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 about to receive from the network and which determines an appropriate action to take regarding that transmission data. Such actions may be extracting data from the transmission data, such as passwords and usernames, digital certificates or eCommerce transaction details for storage in a database; 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 data is in force, and determining whether a transaction about to be made by a user of one of the workstations needs third party approval before it is made. The analyzer may consult a policy data containing a policy to govern the workstations in order to make its determination. The information management system provides many advantages in the eCommerce environment to on-line trading companies, who may benefit by being able to regulate the transactions made by their staff according to their instructions in a policy data, automatically maintain records of passwords and business conducted on-line, avoid paying for unnecessary checks on the validity of digital certificates and ensure that transmissions of data made by their staff are always protected at an agreed strength of encryption.
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84 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 computer network and receiving inbound data from said computer network; policy data, containing rules for identifying in outbound data transaction data that is part of a commercial transaction, and rules for the transmission of transaction data so identified; and an analyzer, said analyzer identifying, in conjunction with said policy data, in at least said outbound data, transaction data associated with part of a transaction, and making a determination in accordance with said rules of said policy data as to whether the transmission of said transaction data would satisfy said rules; and
wherein the transmission of said transaction data by said application is dependent on said determination made by said analyzer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A method for 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 computer network and receiving inbound data from said computer network; providing policy data, containing rules for identifying in outbound data transaction data that is part of a commercial transaction, and rules for the transmission of transaction data so identified; and analyzing at least said outbound data to identify, with reference to said rule of said policy data, transaction data associated with part of a transaction; determining, in accordance with said rules of said policy data, whether the transmission of said transaction data would satisfy said rules; controlling transmission of said transaction data by said application in dependence on the determination made in said determining step. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56)
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57. 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 computer network and receiving inbound data from said computer network; policy storing means for storing policy data, containing rules for identifying in outbound data transaction data that is part of a commercial transaction, and rules for the transmission of transaction data so identified; and analyzing means for identifying, in conjunction with said policy data, in at least said outbound data, transaction data associated with part of a transaction, and for determining, in accordance with said rules of said policy data, whether the transmission of said transaction data would satisfy said rules; and wherein the transmission of said transaction data by said application means is dependent on said determination made by said analyzing means. - View Dependent Claims (58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84)
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