Granted Patent B2

US 12,299,146 · App. 17/498,431 · Granted May 13, 2025

Inventors: Matthew Schwartz (Stamford, CT); Srihari Ranganathan (Chennai, IN)

Assignee: Rocket Software Technologies, Inc.

G06F21/604G06F21/10G06F21/62H04L63/102H04L63/104

Abstract

Claims (47)

1. A system for secure sharing of documents via a content management repository, the system comprising:

a content management unit configured to:

receive content restriction rules for content stored in the content management repository, the content restriction rules including assignments of users and user groups to content categories designating access to the content based on content metadata including fields of information prefilled by user input from a first user for selecting the users and user groups, the user input received at the content management repository at a time of archiving the content into the content management repository;

inject the received content restriction rules into policy rules;

intercept an Application Programming Interface (API) call for the content from a second user

after the content is categorized automatically at the content management repository to at least one of the content categories based on the received user input; and

provide a policy-based redaction of documents by specifying what metadata of a document the second user can view;

a filtering unit configured to dynamically filter the content based on the metadata specified by the content management unit;

a graphical user interface configured to render the filtered content to display the filtered content to the second user; and

a memory communicatively coupled to the content management unit.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the filtering of the content includes:

determining, based on the content restriction rules, access privileges of the user; and

redacting the content based on the access privileges.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the determination of the access privileges includes associating the user with a group of users.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the group of users is associated with a content category based on content metadata.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the content metadata are prefilled for the content using fields of information concerning the content.

6. The system of claim 3 , wherein the content restriction rules include specifying expiration of the content for the group of users.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the content restriction rules are associated with one or more operations, the operations comprising: retention of the content, redaction of the content and granting access to a redacted version of the content, blocking the access to the content, and granting the access to the content.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the interception of the API call for the content includes receiving a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) associated with the content in the content management repository.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the URL associated with the content is shared with the user by a further user.

10. A method for secure sharing of documents via a content management repository, the method comprising:

receiving, by a content management unit, content restriction rules for content stored in the content management repository, the content restriction rules including assignments of users and user groups to content categories designating access to the content based on content metadata including fields of information prefilled by user input from a first user for selecting the users and user groups, the user input received at the content management repository at a time of archiving the content into the content management repository;

categorizing the content automatically at the content management repository to at least one of the content categories based on the received user input;

injecting, by the content management unit, the received content restriction rules into policy rules;

providing a policy-based redaction of documents by specifying what metadata of a document a second user can view;

intercepting, by the content management unit, an Application Programming Interface (API) call for the content from the second user after the content is categorized;

dynamically filtering, by a filtering unit, the content based on the metadata specified by the content management unit; and

rendering the filtered content via a graphical user interface to display the filtered content to the second user.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the filtering of the content includes:

determining, based on the content restriction rules, access privileges of the user; and

redacting the content based on the access privileges.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the determination of the access privileges includes associating the user with a group of users.

13. The method of claim 12 , wherein the group of users is associated with a content category based on content metadata.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the content metadata are prefilled for the content using fields of information concerning the content.

15. The method of claim 12 , wherein the content restriction rules include specifying expiration of the content for the group of users.

16. The method of claim 10 , wherein the content restriction rules are associated with one or more operations, the operations comprising: retention of the content, redaction of the content and granting access to a redacted version of the content, blocking the access to the content, and granting the access to the content.

17. The method of claim 10 , wherein the interception of the API call for the content includes receiving a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) associated with the content in the content management repository.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein the URL associated with the content is shared with the user by a further user.

19. The method of claim 10 , further comprising, upon the rendition of the filtered content, presenting a message to the user, the message indicating that access to at least a portion of the content is blocked for the user.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having embodied thereon instructions, which when executed by at least one processor, perform steps of a method comprising:

receiving, by a content management unit, content restriction rules for content stored in a content management repository, the content restriction rules including assignments of users and user groups to content categories designating access to the content based on content metadata including fields of information prefilled by user input from a first user for selecting the users and user groups, the user input received at the content management repository at a time of archiving the content into the content management repository;

categorizing the content automatically to at least one of the content categories at the content management repository to at least one of the content categories based on the received user input;

injecting, by the content management unit, the received content restriction rules into policy rules;

providing a policy-based redaction of documents by specifying what metadata of a document a second user can view;

intercepting, by the content management unit, an Application Programming Interface (API) call for the content from the second user after the content is categorized;

dynamically filtering, by a filtering unit, the content based on the metadata specified by the content management unit; and

rendering the filtered content via a graphical user interface to display the filtered content to the second user.

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