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System and method for obtaining a portion of an archived email message

  • US 9,785,917 B2
  • Filed: 08/17/2010
  • Issued: 10/10/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, by a mobile interface server, comprising:

  • receiving content to be added to a first email message and a reference to a second email message from a mobile communication device of a user, the reference identifying the second email message and indicates that at least a portion of the second email message is to be forwarded as part of the first email message, the second email message being archived by an email server that is external to the mobile interface server, wherein archiving of the second email message comprises storing the second email message in its original form at an archive server and maintaining only a summary version of the second email message at the email server, and wherein the archive server is external to the email server and the mobile interface server;

    determining, in response to receiving the content, that the second email message has been archived at the archive server;

    obtaining, without user intervention, at least a portion of the second email message from the archive server in response to determining that the second email message has been archived at the archive server;

    generating the first email message, the first email message comprising at least the content and a forwarded portion of the second email message, the forwarded portion of the second email message including the at least a portion of the second email message; and

    conveying the first email message to a destination.

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