Granted Patent B1

US 10,180,955 · App. 15/190,041 · Granted Jan 15, 2019

Inventors: Ashwin Kayyoor (Sunnyvale, CA); Karthik Rajamony (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA); Henry Aloysius (San Jose, CA); Scott Kaiser (Belmont, CA)

Assignee: Veritas Technologies LLC

G06F17/30371G06F17/30085G06F17/30675

Abstract

Claims (70)

1. A computer-implemented method for applying content-based retention policies to data artifacts, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising:

identifying one or more features of at least one data artifact detected on a computing system;

identifying a collection of data artifacts that are:

stored on at least one storage system;

retained in accordance with a set of retention policies;

determining, based at least in part on the features, that the data artifact detected on the computing system and at least one data artifact within the collection exceed a certain level of similarity relative to one another;

analyzing at least one retention policy of the data artifact within the collection;

implementing intelligent retention policy management that increases storage efficiency in connection with the data artifact detected on the computing system by:

providing a suggestion to apply at least a portion of the retention policy to the data artifact detected on the computing system due at least in part to the data artifact within the collection and the data artifact detected on the computing system exceeding the certain level of similarity relative to one another;

applying the suggested portion of the retention policy to the data artifact detected on the computing system.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the features of the data artifact detected on the computing system comprises:

analyzing the data artifact detected on the computing system;

extracting the features of the data artifact based at least in part on the analysis.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein extracting the features of the data artifact comprises identifying at least one keyword that is representative of the data artifact.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein identifying the keyword that is representative of the data artifact comprises:

creating a subset of text that is included in content of the data artifact and represents a certain part of speech;

creating another subset of text that is included in the content of the data artifact and represents certain categories of words consistent with Name-Entity Recognition (NER);

determining the keyword by identifying which text is included in the subset of text and excluded from the other subset of text.

5. The method of claim 3 , wherein determining that the data artifact detected on the computing system and the data artifact within the collection exceed the certain level of similarity comprises determining that the data artifact within the collection includes the keyword.

6. The method of claim 3 , wherein identifying the keyword that is representative of the data artifact comprises creating a set of keywords that are representative of the data artifact by:

identifying at least one keyword that is extracted from the data artifact;

identifying a history of keyword searches of the collection of data artifacts;

determining that at least one word co-occurred with the keyword in a certain number of keyword searches recorded in the history;

adding the word along with the keyword to the set of keywords representative of the data artifact.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein determining that the data artifact detected on the computing system and the data artifact within the collection exceed the certain level of similarity comprises determining that the data artifact within the collection includes a certain amount of keywords within the set.

8. The method of claim 6 , wherein creating the set of keywords comprises generating a vector representation of the set of keywords that facilitates comparing the features of the data artifact detected on the computing system to the features of the data artifacts within the collection.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining that the data artifact detected on the computing system and the data artifact within the collection exceed the certain level of similarity comprises searching the collection for any data artifacts whose similarity to the data artifact detected on the computing system exceeds the certain level by determining which of the data artifacts within the collection have features that match the features of the data artifact detected on the computing system.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

determining that the data artifact detected on the computing system and the data artifact within the collection exceed the certain level of similarity comprises determining that the data artifact detected on the computing system and a plurality of data artifacts within the collection exceed the certain level of similarity;

analyzing the retention policy of the data artifact within the collection comprises:

identifying a plurality of retention policies that apply to the plurality of data artifacts;

determining which retention policy is most common among the plurality of retention policies that apply to the plurality of data artifacts.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein providing the suggestion to apply the portion of the retention policy of the data artifact within the collection to the data artifact detected on the computing system comprises recommending that the most common retention policy applied to the plurality of data artifacts also be applied to the data artifact detected on the computing system.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the features of the data artifact detected on the computing system comprise metadata of the data artifact.

13. A system for applying content-based retention policies to data artifacts, the system comprising:

an identification module, stored in memory, that:

identifies one or more features of at least one data artifact detected on a computing system;

identifies a collection of data artifacts that are:

stored on at least one storage system;

retained in accordance with a set of retention policies;

an analysis module, stored in memory, that:

determines, based at least in part on the features, that the data artifact detected on the computing system and at least one data artifact within the collection exceed a certain level of similarity relative to one another;

analyzes at least one retention policy of the data artifact within the collection;

a suggestion module, stored in memory, that implements intelligent retention policy management that increases storage efficiency in connection with the data artifact detected on the computing system by:

providing suggestion to apply at least a portion of the retention policy to the data artifact detected on the computing system due at least in part to the data artifact within the collection and the data artifact detected on the computing system exceeding the certain level of similarity relative to one another;

causing the suggested portion of the retention policy to be applied to the data artifact detected on the computing system;

at least one physical processor that executes the identification module, the analysis module, and the suggestion module.

14. The system of claim 13 , wherein the analysis module:

analyzes the data artifact detected on the computing system;

extracts the features of the data artifact based at least in part on the analysis.

15. The system of claim 14 , wherein the identification module identifies at least one keyword that is representative of the data artifact.

16. The system of claim 15 , wherein the analysis module:

creating a subset of text that is included in content of the data artifact and represents a certain part of speech;

creating another subset of text that is included in the content of the data artifact and represents certain categories of words consistent with Name-Entity Recognition (NER);

determining the keyword by identifying which text is included in the subset of text and excluded from the other subset of text.

17. The system of claim 15 , wherein the analysis module determines that the data artifact within the collection includes the keyword.

18. The system of claim 15 , wherein the analysis module creates a set of keywords that are representative of the data artifact by:

determining that at least one word co-occurred with at least one keyword extracted from the data artifact in a certain number of keyword searches recorded in a history of keyword searches of the collection of data artifacts;

adding the word along with the keyword to the set of keywords representative of the data artifact.

19. The system of claim 18 , wherein the analysis module determines that the data artifact within the collection includes a certain amount of the keywords within the set.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising one or more computer-executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a computing device, cause the computing device to:

identify one or more features of at least one data artifact detected on a computing system;

identify a collection of data artifacts that are:

stored on at least one storage system;

retained in accordance with a set of retention policies;

determine, based at least in part on the features, that the data artifact detected on the computing system and at least one data artifact within the collection exceed a certain level of similarity relative to one another;

analyze at least one retention policy of the data artifact within the collection;

implementing intelligent retention policy management that increases storage efficiency in connection with the data artifact detected on the computing system by:

providing a suggestion to apply at least a portion of the retention policy to the data artifact detected on the computing system due at least in part to the data artifact within the collection and the data artifact detected on the computing system exceeding the certain level of similarity relative to one another;

applying the suggested portion of the retention policy to the data artifact detected on the computing system.

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