E-Discovery terms starting with P

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PAB A Microsoft Outlook list of recipients created and maintained by an individual user for personal use.
PackBits A compression scheme which originated with the Macintosh. Suitable only for black & white.
Packet A unit of data sent across a network which may contain identify and routing information.
PAGE A single image of the equivalent of one piece of paper. One or several pages make up a Document.
Page File/Paging File A file used to temporarily store code and data for programs that are currently running.
Paper Short-term, unsecured debt securities that a corporation issues are often referred to as paper - for short-term commercial paper.
Paper Discovery Paper discovery refers to the discovery of writings on paper that can be read without the aid of some devices.
Parallel Transmission of all the bits (e.g. in a character) at the same time. If the character has eight bits, there are eight wires.
Parent-child Relationships Parent-child relationships is a term used in e-discovery to describe a chain of documents that stems from a single e-mail or storage folder.
Partition A partition is an individual section of computer storage media such as a hard drive.
Partition Gap One physical hard disk drive can be partitioned to contain one or more logical drives when computer users utilize programs such as FDisk or Partition…
Partition Table The partition table indicates each logical volume contained on a disc and its location.
Partition Waste Space After the boot sector of each volume or partition is written to a track, it is customary for the system to skip the rest of that track and begin the…
Password A secret code utilized, usually along with a user ID, in order to log on or gain access to a PC, network or other secure system, site or application.
path The hierarchical description of where a directory, folder, or file is located on a computer or network.
Pattern Matching A generic term that describes any process that compares one files content with another files content.
Pattern Recognition Technology that searches data for like patterns and flags, and extracts the pertinent data, usually utilizing an algorithm.
PC Personal computer.
PCI Peripheral Component Interface (Interconnect). A high-speed interconnect local bus used to support multimedia devices.
PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association. Plug-in cards for computers (usually portables), which extend the storage and/or functionality.
PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld device that provides any of the following features: computing, telephone, fax, Internet or networking.
PDF Portable Document Format - a file format developed by Adobe Systems. PDF captures formatting information from a variety of desktop publishing…
PDF (Portable Document Format) A proprietary format of Adobe Corporation, it has become a de facto standard for transmitting documents that the sender does not want to be altered and…
PDF Conversions The process of taking files in another file format and converting them to PDF.
PDF/A The International Standards Organization (ISO) specification of PDF for the long-term preservation of archived documents.
Personal Computer (PC) Computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time
Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) Handheld digital organizers.
Petabyte (PB) A petabyte is a measure of computer data storage capacity and is one thousand million million (1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes. See Byte.
Phase Change A method of storing information on rewritable optical discs.
Physical Ddisc An actual piece of computer media, such as the hard disc or drive, floppy discs, CDROM discs, Zip discs, etc.
Physical File Space When a file is created on a computer, a sufficient number of clusters (physical file space) are assigned to contain the file.
PICA One sixth (1/6) of an inch. Used to measure graphics/fonts. There are 12 points per pica; 6 picas per inch; 72 points per inch.
Picture Element The smallest addressable unit on a display screen. The higher the resolution (the more rows of columns), the more information can be displayed.
Ping Ping is a computer network tool used to test whether a particular host is reachable across an IP network.
Pitch Characters (or dots) per inch, measured horizontally.
PKI Digital Signature A document or file may be digitally signed using a partys private signature key, creating a digital signature that is stored with the document.
Plain Text The least formatted and therefore most portable form of text for computerized documents.
Plaintext The least formatted and therefore most portable form of text for computerized documents.
Platter One of several components that make up a computer hard drive. Platters are thin, rapidly rotating discs that have a set of read/write heads on both sides…
PMS (Pantone Matching System) A color standard in printing.
POD (Print On Demand) Document images are stored in electronic format and are available to be quickly printed and in the exact quantity required, long or short runs.
Pointer A pointer is an index entry in the directory of a disc (or other storage medium) that identifies the space on the disc in which an electronic document or…
Portable Document Format (PDF) An Adobe technology for formatting documents so that they can be viewed and printed using the Adobe Acrobat reader.
Portable Volumes A feature that facilitates the moving of large volumes of documents without requiring copying multiple files.
Portrait Mode A display where the height exceeds the width.
preservation The process of ensuring retention and protection from destruction or deletion all potentially relevant evidence, including electronic metadata.
Preservation Notice, Preservation Order See Legal Hold.
Printout A printed version of text of data, another term for which is hard copy.
Private Network A network that is connected to the Internet but is isolated from the Internet with security measures allowing use of the network only by persons within…
Privilege Data Set The universe of documents identified as responsive and/or relevant, but withheld from production on the grounds of attorney-client privilege or work…
Processing Data In the context of this document, synonymous with Image Processing.
Production The process of delivering to another party, or making available for that partys review, documents deemed responsive to a discovery request.
Production Data Set The universe of documents identified as responsive to document requests and not withheld on the grounds of attorney-client privilege or work product.
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Production Number Often referred to as the BATES number. A sequential number assigned to every page of a production for tracking and reference purposes.
PST (Personal Folder File) The place where Outlook stores its data (when Outlook is used without Microsoft Exchange Server). A PST file is created when a mail account is set up.
PST file format File format used by the Microsoft Outlook personal information management (PIM) program, which includes email, task management and a calendar.
Public Network A network that is part of the public Internet.