AUTOMATED DIGITAL DISCOVERY WITH CURRENT STREAMING

摘要

A method and system is provided to improve the throughput and processing time of ediscovery by breaking batches of electronically stored information (ESI) into individual documents or related pieces of ESI, and allowing the individual documents or pieces of ESI to proceed or stream to a subsequent stage in the ediscovery process while other documents or pieces of ESI are still completing earlier stages in the process. The system provides for tracking evidence media and file processing, which includes copying, extraction of documents from container files, document meta-data extraction, text extraction, text indexing, data culling, and transmittal to document review systems, with streaming system throughput and substantially less human intervention which will substantially reduce wait time and human labor.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for electronic discovery processing, comprising executing on a processor the steps of:
receiving a set of electronic discovery project requirements and filter requirements; reading an attached storage medium, and copying a selection of electronically stored information (ESI) from said attached storage medium to a data processing file storage of a file server; wherein as individual subdirectories of said selection of ESI complete the copy process, the individual subdirectories are inserted in parallel into an ediscovery processing job that is performed by a discovery worker service/automated digital discovery module; and wherein said ediscovery processing begins and is performed concurrently while said copying is performed.