US 11,886,406 B2
Systems and methods for scalable delocalized information governance
David Sitsky, Garran (AU); Matthew Westwood Hill, Sydney (AU); Robin Power, Sydney (AU); Eddie Sheehy, Willoughby (AU); and Stephen Stewart, Sydney (AU)
Assigned to Nuix Limited, Sydney (AU)
Filed by Nuix Limited, Sydney (AU)
Filed on May 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/332,526.
Application 17/332,526 is a continuation of application No. 15/935,231, filed on Mar. 26, 2018, granted, now 11,030,170.
Application 15/935,231 is a continuation of application No. 14/083,742, filed on Nov. 19, 2013, granted, now 9,928,260.
Application 14/083,742 is a continuation in part of application No. 13/961,030, filed on Aug. 7, 2013, granted, now 9,785,700.
Application 13/961,030 is a continuation in part of application No. 13/705,522, filed on Dec. 5, 2012, granted, now 9,665,573.
Application 13/705,522 is a continuation of application No. 12/866,950, granted, now 8,359,365, previously published as PCT/US2009/033759, filed on Feb. 11, 2009.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/027,600, filed on Feb. 11, 2008.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/027,603, filed on Feb. 11, 2008.
Prior Publication US 2021/0286788 A1, Sep. 16, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/31 (2019.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 16/22 (2019.01) [G06F 9/505 (2013.01); G06F 16/31 (2019.01); G06F 2209/5017 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for extracting content of a plurality of items in a storage system, the method comprising:
providing a cloud-based system configured to initiate a first cloud process, the first process configured to extract content of an item of the plurality of items, and configured to controllably initiate a second cloud process, said second cloud process configured to extract the content of said item;
accessing a storage system comprising the plurality of items, each item stored in one of a plurality of data centers, by accessing each item within the data center where that item is stored;
identifying, by the first process, a first item from among the plurality of items, which first item includes content comprising an embedded second item;
for said first item:
determining, by the first process, which process from among the first process and the second process to use to extract content from the first item, said process being a selected process; and
extracting content of said item, including the embedded second item, using the selected process in the cloud computer service;
collecting results from the extracting at a control system; and
providing all of said results in a format selected from a group consisting of PDF, Tiff, text, and the native format of the results.