US Patent 7797291 Data retention auditing

A storage management system comprising a processing system and an interface, wherein the processing system is configured to access a first plurality of data, process the first plurality of data to determine a plurality of entities associated with the first plurality of data, determine a first constraint associated with the first plurality of data, and process the first plurality of data to determine if the first plurality of data satisfies the first constraint, and wherein the interface is configured to transmit a first action request to a first entity of the plurality of entities associated with the first plurality of data in response to determining that the first plurality of data satisfies the first constraint, and receive a first action response from the first entity indicating a first action to be performed on the first plurality of data.