Document object model API for MIME

• US 9,819,620 B2
• Filed: 05/07/2015
• Issued: 11/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Williams, Roy, Inglikov, Yuriy M., Ouliankine, Oleg V., Porter, Nelly, Curtis, Loren
• Primary Examiner(s): Srivastava, Vivek
• Assistant Examiner(s): Celani, Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US14/706,580
• Publication Number:
  US 20150244660A1
• Time in Patent Office: 922 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/23 Reliability checks, e.g. acknowledgments or fault reporting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/22 Parsing or analysis of headers

Abstract

The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate interpreting Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) data. An interface can obtain MIME data. For instance, a stream of MIME data can be obtained, MIME data can be loaded from a static file, etc. Moreover, any disparate type of RFC 822 data can additionally or alternatively be received by the interface. Also, a MIME reader can analyze the MIME data (and/or normalized RFC 822 data) to interpret encoded structural information and generate at least one primitive based on the encoded structural information. Further, a hierarchical model can be built utilizing the at least one primitive.

Claims

1. A system for converting data having a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) format to data having a second format, the system comprising:

a processor; and

memory coupled to the processor, the memory comprising computer executable instructions that, when executed by the processor performs a method comprising;

receiving data in a MIME format;

identifying structural information encoded within the data having the MIME format, wherein identifying structural information includes identifying corrupted data having the MIME format and correcting the identified corrupted data using a MIME correction component;

analyzing the structural information encoded within the data having the MIME format to generate at least one primitive; and

generating data having a second format from the at least one primitive.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein identifying corrupted data comprises offering logical interpretation of malformed data having the MIME format.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the structural information encoded with the data having the MIME format comprises one or more of:

a header, a body, a start of a child message, a subject, and an attachment.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein identifying structural information encoded within the data having the MIME format comprises identifying a hierarchical structure associated with the data having the MIME format.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one primitive is generated from the hierarchical structure associated with the data having the second format.

6. The system of claim 2, further comprising:

receiving one or more changes to the hierarchical model; and

in response to the one or more changes, altering the data having the MIME format.

7. A method for converting data having a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) format to data having a second format, the method comprising:

receiving data in a MIME format;

identifying structural information encoded within the data having the MIME format, wherein identifying structural information includes identifying corrupted data having the MIME format and correcting the identified corrupted data using a MIME correction component; and

generating data having a second format.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein identifying structural information comprises identifying a hierarchical structure associated with the data having the MIME format.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the data having the second format is RFC 822 data.

10. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

analyzing the structural information encoded within the data having the MIME format to generate at least one primitive.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein analyzing the structural information comprises normalizing the data having a first format.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the data having the second format is generated from the at least one primitive.