Patent ID: 9256699
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of low-redundancy e-mail handling, comprising: selecting E-mail data comprising attachments; detaching and locally storing the attachments of e-mails in a data storage, and inserting references to the locally stored attachments in the e-mails; identifying E-mail threads in the e-mail data and splitting the E-mail threads into separate ones of the e-mails; deleting duplicates of the e-mails while maintaining references in the duplicates of the e-mails; identifying differences between a first e-mail and an immediately preceding second e-mail of a same one of the E-mail threads, and generating difference data for the identified differences; replacing the first e-mail with the difference data, and inserting a reference to the second e-mail in the difference data; storing the e-mails and references to their predecessors and successors in the same thread in a data storage; and, generating a graph-based interface for the stored e-mails and references, wherein a node represents an e-mail message and an edge represents a reference between e-mail messages, and the graph-based interface provides functionality of an e-mail inbox interface.