SORTING PARSED ATTACHMENTS FROM COMMUNICATIONS

• US 20170097808A1
• Filed: 10/02/2015
• Published: 04/06/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Simpson, JR., Russell Lee, Smirnov, IIya, Limont, Paul, Cook, Jason, Meyers, David, Masterson, Joey, Fern, Kip, Catrinescu, Elena, Steplyk, Hayley
• Granted Patent: US 10,474,428 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/123 Storage facilities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/205 Parsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 7/08 Sorting, i.e. grouping record carriers in numerical or other ordered sequence according to the classification of at least some of the information they carry by merging two or more sets of carriers in ordered sequence G06F7/16
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments

Abstract

Parsed attachments from email communications may be sorted. In some examples, an application, such as an email processing application, may display email summaries associated with emails within an email summary view of the email application interface. A selected email associated with a selected email summary may be displayed in an email view. The email processing application may identify one or more attachments within the emails. Attachment summaries associated with the one or more attachments may be displayed within an attachment summary view of the email application interface.

Claims

1. A computing device for sorting parsed attachments from email communications, the computing device comprising:

a display;

a memory configured to store instructions associated with an email processing application;

one or more processors coupled to the memory and the display, the one or more processors executing an email application interface of the email processing application in conjunction with the instructions stored in the memory, wherein the email processing application includes;

an email engine configured to;

display email summaries associated with emails within an email summary view of the email application interface, wherein a selected email associated with a selected email summary is displayed in an email view; and

an attachment engine configured to;

identify attachments within the emails; and

display attachment summaries associated with the attachments within an attachment summary view of the email application interface.

2. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the attachment engine is further configured to:

detect an activation of a sorting element on the attachment summary view to sort the attachment summaries based on one or more of;

a file type of the attachments and a metadata type associated with the attachments.

3. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the attachment engine is further configured to:

detect an activation of a sorting element on the attachment summary view to sort the attachment summaries based on one or more of;

an author of associated emails, a recipient of associated emails, a priority associated with the emails and assigned by the author of associated emails, and a timestamp of associated emails.

4. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the attachment engine is further configured to:

detect an activation of one of the attachment summaries on the attachment summary view; and

present the attachments associated with the selected attachment summary in the attachment summary view along with one or more edit elements to allow editing of one or more of the attachments, in response to detecting a modify action to modify one or more of the attachments associated with the selected attachment summary.

5. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the attachment engine is further configured to:

detect an activation of a sorting element on the attachment summary view to sort the attachment summaries based on an author of the emails associated with the attachment summaries;

detect an activation of two or more of the attachment summaries on the attachment summary view based on the author of the associated emails; and

in response to detecting a display action to display the attachments associated with the selected attachment summaries, present the attachments associated with the selected attachment summaries in a slideshow on an attachment view.

6. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the attachment engine is further configured to:

detect an activation of one of the attachment summaries on the attachment summary view; and

move one or more attachments associated with the selected attachment summary to a storage location associated with a move action, in response to detecting the move action to move the one or more attachments associated with the selected attachment summary.

7. The computing device of claim 6, wherein the storage location includes one of an online storage service, another computing device, a mass storage device, and a removable storage medium.

8. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the attachment engine is further configured to:

detect an activation of two or more of the attachment summaries on the attachment summary view; and

present the attachments associated with the selected attachment summaries in an attachment view, in response to detecting a display action to display the attachments associated with the selected attachment summaries.

9. The computing device of claim 8, wherein the attachments associated with the selected attachment summaries are displayed in a slideshow in the attachment view.

10. The computing device of claim 8, wherein the attachment engine is further configured to:

move the attachments associated with the selected attachment summaries to a storage location associated with a move action, in response to detecting the move action to move the attachments.

11. A method for sorting parsed attachments from communications, the method comprising:

displaying communications summaries associated with communications within a communication summary view of a communication application interface;

detecting an activation of an attachment element displayed in a proximity to the communication summary view;

identifying attachments within the communications; and

displaying attachment summaries associated with the attachments within an attachment summary view of the communication application interface.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

displaying a selected communication as a rich preview on the communication view of the communication application interface.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

displaying a selected attachment from the attachments as a rich preview on an attachment view of the communication application interface.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

detecting an activation of one of the attachment summaries displayed on the attachment summary view;

presenting a selected attachment associated with the selected attachment summary in the attachment view; and

moving the selected attachment associated with the selected attachment summary to a storage location associated with a move action, in response to detecting the move action to move the selected attachment.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

detecting an activation of one of the communication summaries displayed on the communication summary view; and

presenting a selected communication associated with the selected communications summary in the communications view.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the communications are part of one or more of an email exchange, an instant message exchange, a data sharing session, an application sharing session, and/or an online conference.

17. A computer-readable memory device with instructions stored thereon for sorting parsed attachments from communications, the instructions comprising:

displaying communications summaries associated with communications within a communication summary view of a communication application interface, wherein a selected communication associated with a selected communication summary is displayed in a communication view;

detecting an activation of an attachment element displayed in a proximity to the communication summary view;

identifying attachments within the communications; and

displaying attachment summaries associated with the attachments within an attachment summary view of the communication application interface.

18. The computer-readable memory device of claim 17, wherein the instructions further comprise:

detecting an activation of one of the attachment summaries displayed on the attachment summary view;

presenting a selected attachment associated with the selected attachment summary in the attachment view; and

moving the selected attachment associated with the selected attachment summary to a storage location associated with a move action in response to detecting the move action to move the selected attachment.

19. The computer-readable memory device of claim 17, wherein the instructions further comprise:

detecting an activation of one of the communication summaries displayed on the communication summary view; and

presenting a selected communication associated with the selected communication summary in the communications view.

20. The computer-readable memory device of claim 17, wherein the instructions further comprise:

detecting an activation of two or more of the attachment summaries on the attachment summary view;

in response to detecting a display action to display the attachments associated with the selected attachment summaries, presenting the attachments associated with the selected attachment summaries in the attachment view, wherein the attachments associated with the selected attachment summaries are displayed in a slideshow on the attachment view; and

moving the attachments associated with the selected attachment summaries to a storage location associated with as move action, in response to detecting the move action to move the attachments.