Method and apparatus for managing electronic messages

Details Method and apparatus for managing electronic messages Method and apparatus for managing electronic messages

2005-06-02

2011-12-06

Lovel, Kimberly (Department: 2167)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Data integrity

Data cleansing, data scrubbing, and deleting duplicates

Reexamination Certificate

active

08073822

ABSTRACT:
A method is provided for the storage-efficient management of electronic messages, wherein a message that is to be managed is first received, the message is decomposed into a basic structure and file attachments contained in the message, a unique identification value is calculated for each file attachment, the file attachment is stored as a file with a respective identification value for which no file exists in the storage, or a reference counter of the file attachment for whose identification value a file already exists in the storage, is incremented, and the basic structure with references to the files in the storage, which references correspond to the file attachments originally contained in the message, is stored.

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