US 11,456,985 B2Granted

Apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for data retention in a common group-based communication channel

AssigneeSlack Technologies, LLC

InventorsSri Vasamsetti, Paul Matthew Jennings, Paul Rosania, Steven Gordon, Michael Demmer

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Abstract

Embodiments described herein include apparatuses, computer program products, and methods for data management in a group-based communication system. Specifically, some embodiments address data management for group-based communication channel(s) accessible to any number of entities based on various data retention policies. In this regard, embodiments enable maintenance of data associated with multiple organizations accessing a group-based communication channel based on a single, shared data retention policy, or different data retention policies, for example based on authorship of the group-based communication message. In embodiments, a data retention policy may be assigned directly to an entity, or assigned to a higher-level or lower-level entity and function as a default data a retention policy for other entities associated therewith. A group-based communication system is configured to enable storage of data based on corresponding data retention policies for each organization identifier, and/or an agreed data retention policy for all organization identifiers.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus for group-based communication channel data management associated with a group-based communication platform, the apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one non-transitory memory including computer program code, the at least one non-transitory memory and the computer program code, with the at least one processor, configure the apparatus to:

identify a group-based communication channel accessible to a plurality of client devices associated with a plurality of organization identifiers;
retrieve a group-based communication message set associated with the group-based communication channel;
identify a first data retention policy associated with a first group-based communication message of the group-based communication message set based at least in part on an entity identifier associated with the first group-based communication message, wherein the first data retention policy is associated with a first organization identifier associated with a first organization;
identify a second data retention policy associated with the first group-based communication message, wherein the second data retention policy is associated with at least one of a group-based communication channel identifier associated with the group-based communication channel or a second organization identifier associated with a second organization that is different than the first organization;
determine that the first data retention policy is more restrictive than the second data retention policy based on a storage or transmission of group-based communication messages governed by the first data retention policy and the second data retention policy;
perform, based on determining that the first data retention policy is more restrictive than the second data retention policy, a message management action for the first group-based communication message based on a determination of whether the first group-based communication message satisfies the first data retention policy;
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cause rendering, via a client device of the plurality of client devices, of a group-based communication interface associated with the group-based communication channel, wherein the group-based communication interface comprises the first group-based communication message associated with the first data retention policy.

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A computer-implemented method for group-based communication channel data management associated with a group-based communication platform, the computer-implemented method comprising:

identifying a group-based communication channel accessible to a plurality of client devices associated with a plurality of organization identifiers;
retrieving a group-based communication message set associated with the group-based communication channel;
identifying a first data retention policy associated with a first group-based communication message of the group-based communication message set based at least in part on an entity identifier associated with the first group-based communication message, wherein the first data retention policy is associated with a first organization identifier associated with a first organization;
identifying a second data retention policy associated with the first group-based communication message, wherein the second data retention policy is associated with at least one of a group-based communication channel identifier associated with the group-based communication channel or a second organization identifier associated with a second organization that is different than the first organization;
determining that the first data retention policy is more restrictive than the second data retention policy based on a storage or transmission of group-based communication messages governed by the first data retention policy and the second data retention policy;
performing, based on determining that the first data retention policy is more restrictive than the second data retention policy, a message management action for the first group-based communication message based on a determination of whether the first group-based communication message satisfies the first data retention policy;
and
causing rendering, via a client device of the plurality of client devices, of a group-based communication interface associated with the group-based communication channel, wherein the group-based communication interface comprises the first group-based communication message associated with the first data retention policy.

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A computer program product for group-based communication channel data management associated with a group-based communication platform, the computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer program code thereon, the computer program code configured, in execution with at least one processor, for:

identifying a group-based communication channel accessible to a plurality of client devices associated with a plurality of organization identifiers;
retrieving a group-based communication message set associated with the group-based communication channel;
identifying a first data retention policy associated with a first group-based communication message of the group-based communication message set based at least in part on an entity identifier associated with the first group-based communication message, wherein the first data retention policy is associated with a first organization identifier associated with a first organization;
identifying a second data retention policy associated with the first group-based communication message, wherein the second data retention policy is associated with at least one of a group-based communication channel identifier associated with the group-based communication channel or a second organization identifier associated with a second organization that is different than the first organization;
determining that the first data retention policy is more restrictive than the second data retention policy based on a storage or transmission of group-based communication messages governed by the first data retention policy and the second data retention policy;
performing, based on determining that the first data retention policy is more restrictive than the second data retention policy, a message management action for the first group-based communication message based on a determination of whether the first group-based communication message satisfies the first data retention policy;
and
causing rendering, via a client device of the plurality of client devices, of a group-based communication interface associated with the group-based communication channel, wherein the group-based communication interface comprises the first group-based communication message associated with the first data retention policy.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/778,993Filed 31 Jan 2020
Published: US 2021/0243150 A15 Aug 2021
Granted: 27 Sep 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H04L 51/42
User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail:…
H04L 63/20
Network architectures or network communication protocols for network security: for managing network security; network security policies in general
G06F 16/113
File system administration, e.g. details of archiving or snapshots: details of archiving
G06F 16/125
Using management policies: characterised by the use of retention policies