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Data governance for email systems

  • US 9,147,180 B2
  • Filed: 08/24/2010
  • Issued: 09/29/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An enterprise email governance system useful with enterprise email systems in which multiple users have access to at least some email communication items, the system comprising:

  • an enterprise-wide email communication item events monitoring subsystem operative for monitoring email servers and identifying a first plurality of entities in the enterprise who have actually accessed emails as well as a second plurality of entities in the enterprise who have access permissions to emails, said first plurality of entities being a subset of said second plurality of entities, said second plurality of entities comprising entities other than senders or recipients of said emails, said subsystem also being operative for providing at least near real time indications of email communication item events associated with said first and second plurality of entities and for providing identification of the entity other than the sender or recipient of said email who had at least one of access permissions or actual access to said email, said email communication item events comprising at least one of;

    creating email communication items;

    sending email communication items;

    receiving email communication items;

    viewing email communication items;

    modifying email communication items;

    deleting email communication items;

    opening email communication items;

    forwarding email communication items; and

    saving email communication items; and

    an enterprise-wide email communication item events storage subsystem receiving inputs from said monitoring subsystem and providing at least near real time user accessibility to said email communication item events.

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