UNIFIED MANAGEMENT POLICY FOR MULTIPLE FORMAT ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS

摘要

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for applying unified management policies to monitor, store, search and otherwise manage electronic communications, no matter what format those electronic communications take. Such unified management policy or policies are based on an integrated true identity of a user, typically a person. In one embodiment, a policy implementation module for managing electronic communications transmitted across a communications network in multiple communication formats is provided. The module comprises a message filtering process configured to uniformly filter electronic communications transmitted in the multiple communication formats and that are determined to be associated with a true identity of user employing the multiple communication formats. The filtering is done in accordance with unified management policies, and the policy implementation module further comprises a message disposition process configured to uniformly dispose of the filtered electronic communications in accordance with the unified management policies.