METHOD FOR EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT OF EMAIL ATTACHMENTS
First Claim
1. A method for managing email attachments comprising.receiving and opening, on a mobile device, a document attached to an email,converting the opened document to a lower-resolution document,storing said lower-resolution document, andsynchronizing the stored lower-resolution document with the mobile device.
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Abstract
A system for managing email attachments receives and opens, on a mobile device, a document attached to an email; converts the opened document to a lower-resolution document; stores the lower-resolution document; and synchronizes the stored lower-resolution document with the mobile device. The system can also generate and store a corresponding thumbnail of the lower-resolution document. The original of the opened document may be stored in a remote storage device, optionally encrypting the low-resolution document before storing. The original of the opened document may also be broken into a plurality of pieces which are stored in different remote storage devices.
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1. A method for managing email attachments comprising.
receiving and opening, on a mobile device, a document attached to an email, converting the opened document to a lower-resolution document, storing said lower-resolution document, and synchronizing the stored lower-resolution document with the mobile device.
- 5. The method of claim 5 in which said mobile device includes a low-resolution document application, and the stored lower-resolution document is retrieved from storage and sent to said mobile device.
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10. A method of adding redundancy to remote storage services, comprising
breaking a file to be stored into two or more pieces, adding redundancy pieces, and storing the different pieces the different pieces are stored in different remote storage devices.
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13. A method of accelerating access to one or more files by a device based on the location of said device, comprising
storing said one or more files at different geographical locations in remote storage devices, and retrieving the files that are located closest to the location of the device used to access the stored files.
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