| US 7,594,082 B1 | ||
| Resolving retention policy conflicts | ||
| Roger W. Kilday, Livermore, Calif. (US); John David Dorman, Gloucester (Canada); David Humby, Richmond (Canada); Fiona Schrader, Ottawa (Canada); and Dan Bailey, Kanata (Canada) | ||
| Assigned to EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, Mass. (US) | ||
| Filed on Mar. 07, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/370,473. | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 13/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 711—154 [711/159; 711/160] | 27 Claims |
| 1. A method of managing content, comprising:
receiving an indication that two or more retention policies apply to an item of content; and
automatically generating, using a processor for the item of content, a merged retention policy that is based at least in part
on the respective requirements of the two or more retention policies by resolving a conflict, if any, at least in part by
comparing the respective retention periods prescribed by the two or more retention policies to determine a longest one of
the respective retention periods and adopting the longest one of the respective retention periods as a retention period for
the merged retention policy based at least in part on the determination that it is the longest one;
wherein resolving the conflict, if any, further comprises in part adopting as a storage location for the merged retention
policy a nearest one of the storage locations associated with the two or more retention policies in the case a storage location
is associated with a retention policy, wherein a nearer storage location is a more readily accessible storage location.
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