System and method for manipulating and managing computer archive files
First Claim
1. A system for email attachment management, said system including:
- an email application; and
an email attachment management application enhancing said e-mail application, wherein said email attachment management application provides at least one email attachment management operation to said email application without leaving said email application.
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Abstract
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide an archive management application that operates within a host application to provide access to an archive and/or allow access to and/or modification of files in an archive using the host application'"'"'s interface, instead of operating as a separate standalone archive management application. In an embodiment of the present invention, a file archiving system may include a user interface component, a file management component and a compression/extraction engine component. The user interface component may include an enhanced user interface of a host application that provides an interface for a user. The file management component may include a central directory that provides a representation of the contents of an archive. The compression/extraction engine component may include a file size module and/or a security module. The file size module may be used to compress and/or decompress a file in an archive. The security module may be used to encrypt, decrypt, digitally sign and/or authenticate a file in an archive.
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57 Claims
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1. A system for email attachment management, said system including:
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an email application; and
an email attachment management application enhancing said e-mail application, wherein said email attachment management application provides at least one email attachment management operation to said email application without leaving said email application. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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42. A system for extending a set of user-accessible operations provided by an email application, said system including:
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an email application, said email application associated with a set of user-accessible operations; and
an email attachment management application, wherein said email attachment management application adds at least one email attachment management operation to said set of user-accessible operations provided by said email application. - View Dependent Claims (43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56)
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57. A system for providing an email application with an email attachment management operation, said system including:
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an email application; and
an email attachment management application enhancing said email application to provide an email attachment management operation, wherein said email attachment management operation is supplied by said email attachment management application to said email management application.
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