Post-infection virus protection through data restoration using mirrored data that has been obtained prior to the virus infection. A network appliance in a network mirrors the data of a number of computers in an ongoing manner. An anti-virus module of the network appliance scans data received from a computer to determine whether the computer is infected by a virus. If no virus is identified, the network appliance uses the received data to update a mirrored copy of the computer's data. If, however, the network appliance identifies a virus, the mirrored copy is not updated. Instead, the previous mirrored copy, which represents a pre-infection state of the data, is used to restore the infected computer to its pre-infection state. In this manner, a single copy of an anti-virus utility executed at the network appliance can protect an arbitrary number of computers, which do not require their own anti-virus software.

Restoration of data corrupted by viruses using pre-infected copy of data

A method of workload scheduling in a distributed compute environment includes assigning a subscriber of a network service to a first compute node instance ("CNI") of a plurality of CNIs within a network node interposed between the subscriber and a provider of the network service. The subscriber traffic associated with the subscriber is processed at the first CNI. Subscriber specific data is generated at the first CNI related to the subscriber traffic. The subscriber specific data is then backed up to a second CNI of the network node that is designated as a standby CNI that will process the subscriber traffic if the first CNI fails.

Scheduling of workloads in a distributed compute environment

This invention discloses a novel system and method for displaying electronic documents on remote devices and enabling collaborative editing in conjunction with an Entity Content Management system

Method and system for collaborative editing of a remotely stored document

File system cells are linked together to form a meta file system that appears to a user or application program to be a single file system. Each file system cell may have a conventional file system format, and can be indistinguishable from a conventional file system except for information, such as directory entry attributes, indicating one or more links to other file system cells. These external links may include direct links that are hidden from the user or application program and define a hierarchy of the meta file system cells, and indirect links that appear in the user-visible file system. The meta file system substantially reduces crash recovery time because each file system cell functions as a consistency unit that can be repaired only if needed. The meta file system also permits the file system cells to be accessed concurrently by multiple processors in a file server.

Building a meta file system from file system cells

A network-based system and method processes and analyzes email messages that have been communicated by parties involved in a legal proceeding. The email messages (or other electronic files) of the parties are delivered to a plurality of server units: metadata of the email messages (such as conversational thread information, directory path information, and other properties information) are directed a first server unit, contents of the email messages are directed to a second server unit, and read-only copies of the email messages are provided in a third server unit. If the email messages (or other electronic files) contain duplicate information, the duplicative email message is linked to an email message that has already been delivered to the server units. Once in the server units, users (such as legal professionals) at terminals on a network communicatively coupled to the server units can formulate and direct queries to the server unit(s) to review copies of the email messages (or other electronic files) that are responsive to the queries.

Network-based system and method for accessing and processing emails and other electronic legal documents that may include duplicate information

A document processing system for accurately and efficiently analyzing documents and methods for making and using same. Each incoming document includes at least one section of textual content and is provided in an electronic form or as a paper-based document that is converted into an electronic form. Since many categories of documents, such as legal and accounting documents, often include one or more common text sections with similar textual content, the document processing system compares the documents to identify and classify the common text sections. The document comparison can be further enhanced by dividing the document into document segments and comparing the document segments; whereas, the conversion of paper-based documents likewise can be improved by comparing the resultant electronic document with a library of standard phrases, sentences, and paragraphs. The document processing system thereby enables an image of the document to be manipulated, as desired, to facilitate its review.

System and method for comparing and reviewing documents

A migration tool and methods for migrating computer personalization information from one computer to another when a network is not available, when a network is available but use of the network is undesirable for some reason, and/or when the computer which is the source of the data being migrated has limited or unknown resources to support conventional forms of data migration.

Migration of computer personalization information

A method and apparatus for data backup is disclosed in which prior to actually performing a backup operation from a subscriber computer, the backup server device checks a specified server to determine if parts of the subscriber data to be backed up can be backed up or replicated from data on the specified server. If it can, the backup server uses that specified server to create a backup of the subscriber data to be backed up. If it cannot, then the data is backed up from the subscriber computer.

Sheldon Laube

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System and method for comparing and reviewing documents

Migration of computer personalization information

Method and apparatus for creating a backup of data of from multiple sources