Mountain Gorilla (LOT 12514)

This portfolio is generally related to secured cloud services. Techniques are disclosed to provide collaborative environment for secured and confidential data sharing such as a document file, spreadsheet, picture file, chat session, instant message, video recording, audio-video recording, etc. Disclosed is a secured cloud data management system which allows a subscriber user to share information with a guest user. The subscriber user controls the information and does not allow the guest users to alter or share the information to third party or other devices. The system provides linking and controlling of all the elements of the work and maintains document viewing access history for future reference. Also disclosed are techniques to set the default life cycle policy for accessibility of the document and the document can be deleted by subscriber user any time. The technology may be implemented in cloud services, web applications, online document management systems, etc.