Method for presenting an attachment within an email message

• US 8,601,063 B2
• Filed: 03/31/2006
• Issued: 12/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Sylthe, Olav A., Dumitru, Dan
• Primary Examiner(s): Blair, April Y
• Application Number:
  US11/395,656
• Publication Number:
  US 20070233791A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,804 Days
• Field of Search: 709204-207, 709217-219, 455/466, 715/800
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/06 Message adaptation to terminal or network requirements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments

Abstract

A method for presenting an attachment within an email message on a display of a portable electronic device includes displaying the email message using a messaging application, sending a conversion request to an attachment server in order to view the attachment in an attachment viewer of the portable electronic device, receiving a converted attachment from the attachment server; and upon receiving the converted attachment from the attachment server, inserting a thumbnail image in a message body of the email message.

Claims

1. A method for presenting an attachment within an email message on a display of a portable electronic device, said method comprising:

displaying, on said display, said email message using a messaging application;

receiving, at an input device of said portable electronic device, input representative of a request that said attachment be displayed;

in response to said request that said attachment be displayed, sending a conversion request from said portable electronic device to an attachment server that stores said attachment;

said conversion request comprising a request to generate a universal content data stream from said attachment;

receiving, at said portable electronic device, said universal content data stream from said attachment server;

resizing, at said portable electronic device, an image corresponding to said universal content data stream to generate a thumbnail image; and

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displaying, on said display, said thumbnail image in a message body of said email message.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said universal content data stream comprises a JPEG format.

3. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said attachment is an image having a file format that is selected from the group consisting of:

JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP and TIFF.

4. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said thumbnail image covers between 15 and 40 percent of said display of said portable electronic device.

5. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a size of said thumbnail image is 25% of a size of said image corresponding to said converted attachment.

6. A method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising storing said converted attachment in a memory of said portable electronic device.

7. A portable electronic device having a display, a processor, RAM and a radio device for presenting an attachment within an email message, said portable electronic device comprising:

a messaging application and an attachment viewer stored in said RAM, and executable on said processor, said messaging application configured for displaying said email message on said display;

said attachment viewer for submitting, in response to receiving input representative of a request that said attachment be displayed, a conversion request of said attachment to an attachment server via said radio device;

said conversion request comprising a request to generate a universal content data stream from said attachment;

said attachment viewer configured to receive said universal content data stream from said attachment server, via said radio device;

said attachment viewer configured for storing an image corresponding to said converted attachment in memory and resizing said image to a thumbnail image;

said attachment viewer configured for displaying said thumbnail image in a message body of said email message.

8. A portable electronic device as claimed in claim 7, wherein said image corresponding to said converted attachment is a JPEG encapsulated in UCS data.

9. A portable electronic device as claimed in claim 7, wherein said thumbnail image is 25% of a size of said image corresponding to said converted attachment.