E-mail addressing and document management

• US 8,051,131 B2
• Filed: 06/12/2002
• Issued: 11/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Twede, Roger S., Parry, Travis J.
• Primary Examiner(s): LAZARO, DAVID R
• Application Number:
  US10/171,276
• Publication Number:
  US 20030233411A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,429 Days
• Field of Search: 709/206, 709/207, 709/246, 710/33
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/48 Message addressing, e.g. address format or anonymous messages, aliases

Abstract

A method and system for managing and manipulating documents sent via e-mail wherein dedicated e-mail addresses associated with daemons, or other programming code, are used to direct the functions carried out on the documents, such as printing, storing, or posting to an Internet file, portions of an e-mail message or attachments.

Claims

1. A method for managing e-mail, comprising:

providing at least one particular e-mail address associated with a device for receiving e-mail, the device being associated with a plurality of e-mail addresses wherein each e-mail address is associated with a different daemon provided by the device and each daemon is configured to manipulate an e-mail in a particular manner;

providing a daemon associated with said at least one particular e-mail address for automatically saving at least a portion of an e-mail received by said at least particular one e-mail address associated with said device to a storage location from which the portion can be viewed over the Internet; and

automatically saving, using said daemon associated with said at least one particular e-mail address, at least the portion of said e-mail to the storage location in the particular manner of said daemon associated with said at least one particular e-mail address.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said automatically saving at least the portion of said e-mail comprises saving at least one attachment to said e-mail as a file in said storage location where that file is associated with an URL.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said providing a daemon for automatically saving at least a portion of said e-mail comprises providing a daemon for posting one or both of a body portion and an attachment portion of said e-mail to a storage location from which the posted portion or portions can be viewed over the Internet.

4. A method for manipulating an e-mail message, comprising:

composing an e-mail message;

addressing said e-mail message to an e-mail address corresponding to a device, the device being associated with a plurality of e-mail addresses wherein each e-mail address is associated with a different daemon provided by the device and each daemon is configured to manipulate an e-mail in a particular manner and configured to save at least a portion of said e-mail message to a storage location from which the said portion can be viewed over the Internet;

sending said e-mail message to said e-mail address corresponding to said device;

receiving said e-mail message at said e-mail address corresponding to said device; and

automatically saving, using a daemon associated with said e-mail address, the portion of said e-mail to a storage location in the particular manner of the daemon associated with said e-mail address from which the portion can be viewed over the Internet.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein automatically saving comprises saving at least one attachment to said e-mail as a file in said storage location where that file is associated with an URL.

6. A system for manipulating an e-mail message, comprising:

a device capable of receiving an e-mail, the device being associated with a plurality of e-mail addresses wherein each e-mail address is associated with a different daemon provided by the device and each daemon is configured to manipulate an e-mail in a particular manner;

at least one particular e-mail address associated with said device; and

a daemon associated with the at least one particular e-mail address and stored in a memory of said device for automatically saving at least a portion of an e-mail received by said at least one particular e-mail address associated with said device to a storage location in the particular manner of said daemon associated with said at least one particular e-mail address from which the portion can be viewed over the Internet.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein said daemon stored in a memory of said device comprises a daemon for automatically saving at least one attachment to said e-mail as a file in said storage location where that file is associated with an URL.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium having computer readable instructions that when executed cause a device to implement a method that includes:

receiving an e-mail at a particular e-mail address associated with the device, the device being associated with a plurality of e-mail addresses wherein each e-mail address is associated with a different daemon provided by the device and each daemon is configured to manipulate an e-mail in a particular manner; and

automatically saving, using a daemon associated with said particular e-mail address, at least a portion of the e-mail to a storage location in the particular manner of the daemon associated with said particular e-mail address from which the portion can be viewed over the Internet.

9. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein automatically saving at least the portion of the e-mail comprises saving at least one attachment to said e-mail as a file in said storage location where that file is associated with an URL.

10. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein automatically saving at least the portion of the e-mail comprises posting one or both of a body portion and an attachment portion of the e-mail to a storage location from which the posted portion or portions can be view for viewed over the Internet.

11. A method for managing e-mail, comprising:

receiving an e-mail at a particular e-mail address associate with a device, the device being associated with a plurality of e-mail addresses wherein each e-mail address is associated with a different daemon provided by the device and each daemon is configured to manipulate an e-mail in a particular manner; and

using the daemon associated with the particular e-mail address to store at least a portion of the email to a storage location in the particular manner of that daemon.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein using the daemon comprises using the daemon associated with the particular e-mail address to save at least the portion of the e-mail to a storage location from which the portion can be viewed over the Internet.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein using the daemon comprises using the daemon associated with the particular e-mail address to save an attachment portion of the e-mail as a file in the storage location where that file is associated with an URL.