Mapping parent/child electronic files contained in a compound electronic file to a file class

摘要

A computer-implemented method for identifying electronic files from a set of electronic files that contains at least one compound electronic file itself having a plurality of electronic files, the method includes the steps of: the method including the steps of: (i) using an operating agent and a gateway, opening the compound electronic file; and (ii) from the plurality of electronic files in the opened compound electronic file, identifying a subset of parent electronic files, wherein each parent electronic file includes one or more file pointer native attributes; identifying each child file corresponding to each file pointer native attribute in each parent electronic file; and for each file group comprising a parent file and each child file corresponding thereto, classifying the group into one of the predetermined plurality of recommended actions based upon the highest ordered recommended actions in the group.