Deferring classification of a declared record
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsFRANK R. AYARS, YI-JEN LIN, YVONNE W. SANTIAGO, LI ZHOU
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Abstract
A records management system classifies records according to a file plan. Record are declared, and then classified. Some records have in initially indeterminate classification and classification is deferred, either by request or due to a lack of sufficient information to classify the record according to the file plan. Unclassified records are placed into a temporary container. At some time while in the temporary container a classification event occurs with a given record which allows the records management system to classify the record and place it into a container corresponding to its classification.
Claims25
A computer implemented method of handling records initially having an indeterminate classification in a records management system, comprising:
- placing a record in a temporary container until a classification event associated with the record occurs, wherein the record is available for use by an application associated with the record while in the temporary container;
- determining a classification of the record upon occurrence of the classification event subsequent to placing the record in the temporary container;
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- placing the record in a record container corresponding to the classification subsequent to the occurrence of the classification event.
A computer program product comprising a tangible computer readable storage medium having computer usable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code that is stored in a tangible medium comprising:
- computer usable program code operable to defer classification of a record;
- computer usable program code operable to place the record in a temporary container;
- computer usable program code operable to determine the occurrence of a classification event associated with the record subsequent to placing the record in the temporary container;
- computer usable program code operable to determine a classification of the record upon occurrence of the classification event;
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- computer usable program code operable to place the record in a record container corresponding to the classification subsequent to the occurrence of the classification event.
A computer implemented records management system which executes programming code which is executable by the records management system to:
- defer classification of a record upon declaring a document to be a record;
- place the record in a temporary container;
- determine the occurrence of a classification event associated with the record subsequent to placing the record in the temporary container;
- determine a classification of the record based on the classification event;
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- place the record in a record container corresponding to the classification.
A method of delaying classification of records in an information system, comprising:
- placing the records in an unclassified records container of a file plan repository of the information system;
- determining the occurrence of a classification event associated with at least one of the records;
- in response to the occurrence of the classification event, determining a record classification of at least one record;
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- upon determining the record classification of the at least one record, moving the at least one record to a classification container of the file plan repository.
A computer program product comprising a tangible computer readable storage medium having computer usable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code that is stored in a tangible medium comprising:
- computer usable program code operable to place records in an unclassified records directory of a file plan repository of the information system;
- computer usable program code operable to determine the occurrence of a classification event associated with at least one of the records;
- computer usable program code operable to, in response to the classification event, determine a record classification of the at least one record;
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- computer usable program code operable to, upon determining the record classification, move the at least one record to a classification container of the file plan repository corresponding to the classification.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.