Method of managing the retention of electronic documents in an interactive information handling system

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A method of managing the retention and deletion of electronic documents in which the respective document retention needs of the document owners and the document retention criteria of the enterprise that functions as the central administration of the system are achieved without compromise by establishing a dual label for each document that is to be stored in the system and allowing a different expiration date to be entered into the system for each label. The first label is referred to as the Document Label (DL) and functions to identify the business use classification of the document. The second label is referred to as the Ownership Label (OL) and functions to identify a document …