SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS OF AN EMAIL CLIENT

• US 20080086640A1
• Filed: 01/21/2007
• Published: 04/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: JMJ Software Company Limited
• Original Assignee: JMJ Software Company Limited
• Inventors: Howser, Martin W., Voss, Terry A.
• Application Number:
  US11/625,336
• Publication Number:
  US 20080086640A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/171
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail

Abstract

Systems, methods and apparatus of email communication are described.

Claims

1. A computer-accessible medium having executable instructions to associate an email with a category in an email client, the executable instructions capable of directing a processor to perform:

receiving an email communication that is associated with a person; and

locating information pertaining to the person by referencing a person-to-email relationship in a category/person table,

wherein the category/person table comprises

a field storing data representing an indexed key field representing an identification of a category/person;

a field storing data representing a category; and

a field storing data representing a person,

verifying that a field representing an auto-connection for the person is set to affirmative; and

associating the email communication with the category referenced in the category/person table.

2. The computer-accessible medium of claim 1, wherein execution of the instructions is managed by a runtime module, the runtime module farther comprising an architecture of cooperation between natively executing instructions and the runtime module, the architecture specifying that at any point of the execution, the runtime module can stop the executing processor and retrieve information specific to the current processor instruction address, the information being query-able pertaining to runtime state, such as register or stack memory contents.

3. The computer-accessible medium of claim 1, the medium further comprising executable instructions capable of directing the processor to perform:

receiving a selection of the person;

displaying detailed information of the person;

including a list of categories of with which the selected person is related to or associated;

receiving an indication of a selection of a graphical user interface button adjacent or in close proximity to the display of the categories list;

displaying a marker next to, adjacent or in close proximity to one of the categories;

associating automatically all emails from the person;

receiving an indication of the user selecting the button;

moving the marker next to a category in the category list;

receiving an indication of the user selecting the button when no category is marked; and

marking the first category in the category list.

4. The computer-accessible medium of claim 1, the medium farther comprising executable instructions capable of directing the processor to perform:

storing a body of the email communication in a first data file structure; and

storing the at least one attachment in a second data file structure.

5. The computer-accessible medium of claim 1, the medium farther comprising executable instructions capable of directing the processor to perform:

determining that a sender of the email is stored in a database; and

creating an association in the database between the email and the sender.

6. The computer-accessible medium of claim 1, wherein the table is accessed through a structured-query-language database manager, the structured-query-language database manager having a high level security manager.

7. The computer-accessible medium of claim 1, wherein the executable instructions further comprise managed code whose execution is managed by a runtime module, the runtime module further defining an architecture of cooperation between natively executing instructions and the runtime module, wherein the architecture of cooperation requires that at any point of execution of the executable instructions, the runtime module can stop a processor that is executing the executable instructions and the processor can retrieve information specific to a current CPU instruction address, wherein retrieved information pertains to runtime state, including register or stack memory contents.

8. A computer-accessible medium having executable instructions to encrypt email communications, the executable instructions capable of directing a processor to perform:

encrypting an email communication in conjunction with a key management facility, the encrypting being performed in a manner that is compliant with RFC 2440, the encrypting being farther performed by a component that is compliant with an architecture of cooperation between natively executing instructions and a runtime module, the architecture further specifying that at any point of execution, the runtime module is operable to stop an executing processor and the runtime module is further operable to retrieve information specific to the current executing processor instruction address, the information including runtime state information; and

transmitting the encrypted email communication.

9. The computer-accessible medium of claim 8, wherein the executable instructions capable of directing the processor to perform the encrypting further comprise executable instructions capable of directing the processor to perform:

embodying the executable instructions capable of directing the processor to perform the encrypting in a wrapper class that is compliant with the architecture of cooperation, the wrapper class providing a public domain version of encryption process in accordance with RFC 2440.

10. The computer-accessible medium of claim 8, wherein the executable instructions capable of directing the processor to perform the encrypting further comprise executable instructions capable of directing the processor to perform:

encrypting the email communication in a symmetric-key process from a one-time key, the one-time key further comprising a key that expires upon the first use of the key.

11. The computer-accessible medium of claim 10, wherein the one-time key farther comprises:

a session key

12. The computer-accessible medium of claim 11, wherein the executable instructions capable of directing the processor to perform the encrypting further comprise executable instructions capable of directing the processor to perform:

13. The computer-accessible medium of claim 12, wherein the executable instructions capable of directing the processor to perform the encrypting further comprise executable instructions capable of directing the processor to perform:

encrypting the session key from a public key, the public key being associated with, generated by, or known to the intended recipient of the email communication.

14. The computer-accessible medium of claim 13, wherein the executable instructions capable of directing the processor to perform the transmitting further comprise executable instructions capable of directing the processor to perform:

transmitting the encrypted session key with the encrypted email communication.

15. A graphical user interface comprising:

a plurality of favorites lists, wherein the favorites list is nested, wherein the nested favorites list provides graphical dragging and dropping of hyperlinks while a user operating the nested favorites lists scrolls over nested favorites lists; and

at least one open/close button associated with each of the plurality of nested favorites lists, wherein the nesting of the favorites lists provides each of the nested favorites lists to be opened or closed.

16. A computer-accessible medium having executable instructions to manage scenarios of previous installation states of an email communication client, the executable instructions capable of directing a processor to perform:

installing the email communication client on a destination computer after

affirmatively determining a first scenario of the destination computer having no software installed relating to the operation of the email communication client;

installing a database manager on the destination computer after affirmatively determining a second scenario of the destination computer having no database manager installed that is of sufficient capability for operation of the email communication client; and

installing an architectural software component on the destination computer after affirmatively determining a third scenario of the destination computer having no architectural software component installed that is of sufficient capability for operation of the email communication client, wherein the architectural software component further comprises an architectural software component that is compliant with an architecture of cooperation between natively executing instructions and a runtime module, the architecture further specifying that at any point of execution, the runtime module is operable to stop an executing processor and the runtime module is further operable to retrieve information specific to the current executing processor instruction address, the information including runtime state information.

17. The computer-accessible medium of claim 16, the medium further comprising executable instructions capable of directing the processor to perform:

recognizing any combination of the scenarios and not installing a component that is currently installed.

18. A computer-accessible medium having executable instructions to receive and store an email communication, the executable instructions capable of directing a processor to perform:

retrieving the email communication as a binary file from a server;

receiving a designation of a character set of a text body of the email communication;

populating a data structure that is compliant with the MIME standard with data from the email communication;

populating an email data structure with data from the MIME-compliant data structure;

populating the email data structure with the designation of the character set; and

storing the email data structure in a database.

19. The computer-accessible medium of claim 18, wherein the database further comprises:

a SQL database.

20. The computer-accessible medium of claim 18, wherein the executable instructions capable of directing the processor to populate the data structure that is compliant with the MIME standard with data from the email communication further comprise executable instructions capable of directing the processor to perform:

translating the email communication to a data structure that is compliant with MIME.