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Mechanism for facilitating organization and accessing of emails

  • US 8,024,410 B2
  • Filed: 06/19/2007
  • Issued: 09/20/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/03/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A machine implemented method, comprising:

  • accessing a particular electronic mail message (email) that is part of an email conversation, wherein the email conversation spans across a plurality of separate emails, wherein all of the emails that are part of the email conversation have a unique identifier associated therewith that indicates that the emails are part of the email conversation, and wherein the particular email is currently located in a first logical container;

    extracting the unique identifier and content from the particular email;

    accessing, based at least partially upon the unique identifier, an email conversation data structure, wherein the email conversation data structure comprises information indicating which emails are part of the email conversation and information indicating a particular logical container as the logical container to which emails that are part of the email conversation are to be moved;

    accessing one or more other emails indicated by the email conversation data structure as being part of the email conversation;

    extracting content from the one or more other emails;

    automatically generating a composite email which includes the content extracted from the particular email and the content extracted from the one or more other emails;

    after accessing the particular email;

    determining whether the particular email should be moved from the first logical container to another logical container; and

    in response to a determination that the particular email should be moved, moving the particular email from the first logical container to the particular logical container indicated in the email conversation data structure.

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