Disabling prohibited content and identifying repeat offenders in service provider storage systems
US9614850B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 15, 2013 |
| Grant date | Apr 4, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 15, 2033 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2463/103
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Objects in a shared storage system can be marked as including prohibited content. Incidents that result in objects being so marked can be stored in an incident history associated with a user responsible for those objects. The incident history can be processed to identify repeat offenders and modify access privileges of those users. However, when objects are shared by one user with another user, prohibited content is blocked from being shared, while the remainder of the shared objects can be accessed by the other user. Functions that allow sharing of content are implemented so as prevent sharing of prohibited content with another user, while allowing other content to be shared. If a group of files or objects is shared, then the presence of prohibited content in one object in the group results in that prohibited content not being shared, but the remaining files or objects are still shared.
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