Enhanced management of migration and archiving operations

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10257147-B2
Application number	US-201715812908-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 14, 2017
Priority date	Apr 15, 2015
Publication date	Apr 9, 2019
Grant date	Apr 9, 2019

Abstract

A network-based solution that provides enhances management of migration and archiving operations may involve, as embodied in various systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media, performing a pre-transfer assessment on each of a plurality of accessed mailboxes designated for migration or archiving. Performing the pre-transfer assessment may include designating one or more emails for exclusion from the migration or archiving operation after applying transferability rules and exception rules to each email message contained in the assessed mailbox. The solution may involve notifying the user about the email messages designated for exclusion and performing one or more user selected actions on the email message or related attachment files.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
accessing a mailbox from a source email platform, the mailbox including a plurality of email messages associated with a user; and
performing a pre-transfer assessment on the mailbox, wherein the pre-transfer assessment includes:
applying one or more transferability rules to a first email message in the mailbox,
applying one or more exception rules to the first email message in the mailbox, and
designating the first email message in the mailbox for exclusion from a migration or archiving operation based on at least one of:
a result of an application of the one or more transferability rules, and
a result of the application of the one or more exception rules,

performing the migration or archiving operation on the mailbox, wherein the migration or archiving operation is not performed on the first email message designated for exclusion;
sending, to a user device, one or more selectable actions to be performed on the first email message excluded from the migration or archiving operation;
receiving, from the user device, a selection of at least one of the one or more actions to be performed on the first email message designated for exclusion; and
performing the selected at least one or more actions on the first email message designated for exclusion.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein applying the one or more transferability rules to the first email message of the assessed mailbox includes determining that the first email message of the assessed mailbox includes an attachment file that exceeds a predetermined attachment size limit.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein determining that the first email message of the assessed mailbox includes an attachment file that exceeds the predetermined attachment size limit includes:
inspecting the mailbox for the first email message containing an attachment file,
determining a file size of a detected attachment file, and
comparing the file size of the detected attachment file to the predetermined attachment size limit.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein applying the one or more exception rules to each email message of the assessed mailbox includes determining that an age of an email message of the assessed mailbox exceeds a predetermined age limit.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein applying one or more exception rules to each email message contained in the assessed mailbox includes determining that an attachment file of an email message contained in the assessed mailbox exceeds a predetermined attachment age limit defined by a user:
inspecting the mailbox for the first email message containing an attachment file,
determining an age of a detected attachment file, and
comparing the age of the detected attachment file to the predetermined attachment age limit.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein applying one or more exception rules to each email message of the assessed mailbox includes applying a predetermined retention policy defined by a user, wherein applying a predetermined retention policy defined by a user includes at least one of:
comparing a classification associated with the email message to a predetermined classification defined by a user, wherein the classification includes at least one of personal information, business information, and confidential information; and
comparing a file type associated with the email message to a predetermined file type defined by a user.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein performing the selected at least one or more actions on the first email message designated for exclusion includes at least one of:
deleting the first email message;
storing the first email message on a remote storage device;
decrypting an encrypted email message and then performing the migration or archiving operation on the decrypted email message;
modifying the first email message by deleting an attachment file of the first email message and then performing the migration or archiving operation on the modified first email message; and
modifying the first email message by stubbing an attachment file of the first email message and then performing the migration or archiving operation on the modified first email message.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein performing the selected one or more actions on the first email message designated for exclusion includes:
making an attachment file of the first email message available for download until a predetermined expiration time,
modifying the first email message by deleting the attachment file when the expiration time arrives, and
performing the migration or archiving operation on the modified first email message.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having embodied thereon a computer program executable by a processor to cause a system to perform operations comprising:
accessing a mailbox from a source email platform, the mailbox including a plurality of email messages associated with a user; and
performing a pre-transfer assessment on the mailbox, wherein the pre-transfer assessment includes:
applying one or more transferability rules to a first email message contained in the assessed mailbox,
applying one or more exception rules to the first email message contained in the assessed mailbox, and
designating the first email message in mailbox for exclusion from a migration or archiving operation based on at least one of:
a result of the application of the one or more transferability rules, and
a result of the application of the one or more exception rules,

performing the migration or archiving operation on the mailbox, wherein the migration or archiving operation is not performed on the first email message designated for exclusion;
sending, to a user device, one or more selectable actions to be performed on the first email message excluded from the migration or archiving operation;
receiving from the user a device, a selection of at least one of the one or more actions to be performed on the first email message designated for exclusion; and
performing the selected at least one or more actions on the first email message designated for exclusion.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein applying the one or more transferability rules to the first email message of the assessed mailbox includes determining that the first email message of the assessed mailbox includes an attachment file that exceeds a predetermined attachment size limit.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 10 , wherein determining that the first email message of the assessed mailbox includes an attachment file that exceeds the predetermined attachment size limit includes:
inspecting the mailbox for the first email message containing an attachment file,
determining a file size of a detected attachment file, and
comparing the file size of the detected attachment file to the predetermined attachment size limit.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein applying the one or more exception rules to each email message of the assessed mailbox includes determining that an age of an email message of the assessed mailbox exceeds a predetermined age limit.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein applying one or more exception rules to each email message contained in the assessed mailbox includes determining that an attachment file of an email message contained in the assessed mailbox exceeds a predetermined attachment age limit defined by a user by:
inspecting the mailbox for the first email message containing an attachment file,
determining an age of a d

Assignees

• Quest Software Inc

Inventors

• Johnstone Curtis T
• Willis Tomas

Classifications

• H04L51/08

  Annexed information, e.g. attachments · CPC title

• H04L67/02

  based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP] · CPC title

• H04L51/22 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/42

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/1097 Primary

  for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS] · CPC title