Dividing e-mails between two users with the aid of a server

• US 8,260,869 B2
• Filed: 08/29/2008
• Issued: 09/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: RingCentral Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Unify GmbH & Co. KG (Atos SE)
• Inventors: Lederer, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Wing
• Assistant Examiner(s): Zong, Ruolei
• Application Number:
  US12/678,613
• Publication Number:
  US 20100217813A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,467 Days
• Field of Search: 709/206, 709/204, 709/200, 709217-219, 709245-246, 379/202.01, 379/201.01, 379/88.17, 379/93.21, 379/158, 379/205.01
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/42 Mailbox-related aspects, e.g. synchronisation of mailboxes

Abstract

A method for operating a communication connection between a first communication terminal and a second communication terminal including a coupling to a data processing system and communication system that may implement such a method include a first computing unit interacting with said first communication terminal and displaying a first document. At least one first piece of user-identifying address information is assigned to the first document and a second piece of user-identifying address information is assigned to a second computing unit interacting with said second communication terminal. A second is displayed on said second computing unit if the first piece of user-identifying address information corresponds with said second piece of user-identifying address information.

Claims

1. A method for operating a communication connection between a first communication terminal and a second communication terminal comprising:

a first computing unit displaying a first document;

the first communication terminal attempting to form the communication connection with the second communication terminal, the first computing unit associated with a first user and the first communication terminal associated with the first user, the first communication terminal attempting to form the communication connection with the second communication terminal occuring while the first document is displayed by the first computing unit;

a first transmission device informing the first computing unit of the attempt to form the communication connection and sending at least one first parameter related to the communication connection to the first computing unit, the at least one first parameter comprising at least one of an address of the second communication terminal and an address associated with a second user of the second communication terminal, the first transmission device being of a communication system that also comprises the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal;

the first computing unit extracting document information for the first document in response to receiving the at least one first parameter from the first transmission device;

the second communication terminal establishing the communication connection with the first communication terminal;

the first computing unit sending the document information to a second computing unit after the communication connection is established, the second communication terminal associated with the second user and the second computing unit associated with the second user;

in response to receipt of the document information, the second computing unit searching for a copy of the first document; and

the second computing unit displaying at least one of a link to the copy of the first document and the copy of the first document; and

wherein actuation of the link to the copy of the first document causes the second computing unit to display the copy of the first document.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising defining the document information from the first computing unit by the second computing unit to be document-specific for all documents in a document memory on the second computing unit.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the first computing unit is a computer, the first communication terminal is a telephone, the second communication terminal is a telephone and the second computing unit is a computer.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising the first computing unit conducting an analysis for the extracting of the document information at a time selected from the group consisting of:

when the communication connection makes a call,

when the communication connection is established,

when the communication connection is answered by the second communication terminal,

when the communication connection goes through after being accepted by the second communication terminal, and

when the communication connection goes through after being accepted by the second computing unit.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising the first computing unit locating the document information when a document window is opened.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising the first computing unit locating and analyzing document information in a same process.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising the first computing unit storing located document information until analysis of the document information and extraction of the document information is completed.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising including in the communication connection a signaling connection between the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal and transmitting the document information through the signaling connection.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising including a data connection between the first computing unit and the second computing unit, and transmitting the document information through the data connection.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the second computing unit displays the copy of the first document.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the second computing unit displays a link to the copy of the first document.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the first document is selected from the group consisting of an electronic message and an attachment to an electronic message.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein the first computing unit extracts the document information from documents stored in document memory, the document memory being selected from the group consisting of an e-mail mailbox and an e-mail archive.

14. The method of claim 1 wherein the document information is located for extraction by use of a first program stored and executed on the first computing unit.

15. The method of claim 1 wherein the searching for the copy of the first document is performed by use of a second program stored and executed on the second computing unit.

16. A communication system comprising:

a first communication terminal associated with a first user;

a first computing unit associated with the first user;

a second communication terminal associated with a second user;

a second computing unit associated with the second user;

a first transmission device communicatively connected to the first communication terminal and the second communication terminal, the first transmission device, first communication terminal and second communication terminal being portions of the communication system;

the first and second computing units being portions of a data processing system;

the first computing unit displaying a first document;

the first communication terminal attempting to form the communication connection with the second communication terminal while the first document is displayed by the first computing unit;

the first transmission device informing the first computing unit of the attempt to form the communication connection and sending at least one first parameter related to the communication connection to the first computing unit, the at least one first parameter comprising at least one of an address of the second communication terminal and an address associated with the second user;

the first computing unit extracting document information for the first document in response to receiving the at least one first parameter from the first transmission device;

the second communication terminal establishing the communication connection with the first communication terminal;

the first computing unit sending the document information to the second computing unit after the communication connection is established;

in response to receipt of the document information, the second computing unit searching for a copy of the first document; and

the second computing unit displaying at least one of a link to the copy of the first document and the copy of the first document; and

wherein actuation of the link to the copy of the first document causes the second computing unit to display the copy of the first document.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein the first computing unit is a computer, the first communication terminal is a telephone, the second communication terminal is a telephone and the second computing unit is a computer.