AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION AND RETRIEVAL OF MESSAGE ATTACHMENTS IN A MESSAGE CONVERSATION

• US 20160072743A1
• Filed: 09/04/2014
• Published: 03/10/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: BROWN, David Andrew
• Granted Patent: US 10,476,823 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/02 using automatic reactions or user delegation, e.g. automatic replies or chatbot-generated messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/046 Interoperability with other network applications or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes

Abstract

The present disclosure provides for an end-user communication device of a messaging system configured to identify messages exchanged during a message conversation. Responsive to selection of one or more data files, the device retrieves the one or more selected data files from a local memory of the device or from a server of the messaging system. Optionally, the messages may be identified in response to a request to add one or more new recipients in a reply to a message of a message conversation and selected data files may be forwarded to the new recipients.

Claims

1. A method, implemented in an end-user communication device of a messaging system, comprising,

identifying a chain of sent and received messages of a message conversation;

identifying one or more data files attached to at least one message of the chain of messages of the message conversation; and

displaying identifiers of the one or more data files on a display of the end-user communication device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising, responsive to a request to add one or more new recipients in a reply to a message of the chain of messages of the message conversation:

displaying an option to forward one or more of the identified data files to the one or more new recipients; and

responsive to selection of one or more identified data files;

retrieving the one or more selected data files;

inserting the one or more selected data files into a message addressed to the one or more new recipients; and

sending the message to the one or more new recipient

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the message addressed to the one or more new recipients comprises the reply to the message of the chain of messages.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

automatically generating a new message addressed to the one or more new recipients,

wherein inserting the one or more data files into a message addressed to the one or more new recipients comprises inserting the one or more data files into the automatically generated message.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein sending message to the one or more new recipients comprises sending the automatically generated message in response to the reply being sent.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein automatically generating the message comprises:

addressing a message to the one or more new recipients; and

attaching the one or more selected data files to the message as attachments.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein displaying the option to forward one or more data files to the one or more new recipients comprises:

displaying a graphical control on a graphical display of the end-user communication device.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

displaying a list of one or more data files to be displayed for selection or deselection in response to activation of the graphical control.

9. The method of claim 2, wherein displaying the option to forward one or more data files to the one or more new recipients comprises:

displaying a list of the data files attached to at least one message of the chain of messages of the message conversation on a graphical display of the end-user communication device.

10. The method of claim 2, wherein inserting a first data file of the selected data files into the message comprises:

incorporating a link to the first data file in the message if the first data file is stored on a server of the messaging system.

11. The method of claim 2, further comprising, for each inserted data file, adding a timestamp to the message corresponding to a time the data file was originally exchanged.

12. The method of claim 2, wherein retrieving a first data files of the one or more selected data files comprises retrieving the first data file from a memory of the end-user communication device.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein generating the message addressed to the one or more new recipients comprises:

requesting a remote computer of the messaging system to generate the message, insert the attachments, and send the message to the one or more new recipients.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the messaging system comprises an electronic mail (email) system.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the end-user communication device comprises a mobile telephone and the messaging system comprising a wireless telephone system.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the messaging system comprises the Internet.

17. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

responsive to selection of one or more identified data files;

retrieving the one or more selected data files;

wherein retrieving a first data file of the one or more selected data files comprises retrieving the first data file from a server of the messaging system when the first data file is not found in a memory of the end-user communication device.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of an end-user communication device, cause the processor to perform the method of claim 1.

19. An end-user communication device comprising:

a graphical display;

an interface with a messaging system;

a processor, operatively coupled to the graphical display and the interface with the messaging system and configured to perform a method comprising;

responsive to a request to add one or more new recipients in a reply to a message of a chain of messages of a message conversation;

displaying, on the graphical display, an option to forward one or more data files to the one or more new recipients, the one or more data files comprising data files attached to at least one message of the chain of messages of the message conversation;

responsive to selection of one or more data files;

retrieving the one or more selected data files;

inserting the one or more selected data files into a message addressed to the one or more new recipients; and

sending the message to the one or more new recipients via the interface to the messaging system.

20. The end-user communication device of claim 19, further comprising:

a memory operatively coupled to the processor,

wherein retrieving a first data file of the one or more selected data files comprises;

retrieving the first data file from the memory of the end-user communication device.

21. The end-user communication device of claim 19, wherein retrieving a first data file of the one or more selected data files comprises:

retrieving the first data file from a server of the messaging system using the interface with the messaging system.

22. The end-user communication device of claim 19, wherein the end-user communication device comprises a smartphone.

23. The end-user communication device of claim 19, wherein messaging system comprises an electronic mail (email) system.