SELECTIVE FORWARDING OF COMPONENTS OF AN ATTACHED ARCHIVE IN EMAIL SYSTEM

• US 20170019361A1
• Filed: 10/07/2016
• Published: 01/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Balasubramanian, Swaminathan, Bansal, Ravi P., Mahajan, Sandip D., Shaikh, Haaris A.
• Application Number:
  US15/287,772
• Publication Number:
  US 20170019361A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

A communication management system. A computer receives an electronic communication including an attachment and selectively forwards components of the attachment to multiple recipients based on associating the recipients with the components.

Claims

1. A computer program product for managing transmission of electronic communications having attachments, comprising a non-transitory tangible storage device having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by a processor of a computer to perform a method, the method comprising:

receiving, by the processor, an electronic communication from a user, the electronic communication comprising an attachment having multiple components with associated file formats;

assigning, by the processor, the multiple components of the attachment to recipients in a list of recipients, the assigning comprising;

determining, by the processor, one of more recipients from the list of recipients have corresponding profiles, and wherein each corresponding profile identifies a job role assigned to the one or more recipients; and

assigning, by the processor, one or more components from the multiple components based on the associated file formats and the job role assigned to the one or more recipients; and

sending, by the processor, the electronic communication to the recipients, wherein the electronic communication to a given recipients among the recipient includes the one or more components of the attachment assigned to the given recipient.