Patent ID: 9385980
Filing Date: 2016-07-05
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for processing email attachments in a file management system, comprising: storing, by a processing circuitry, a plurality of processing rules for processing email attachments received from an external outbound mail server, including a plurality of sender-defined processing rules, each sender-defined processing rule provided by at least one email sender; receiving by an inbound mail server, located in the file management system, by the processing circuitry, an inbound email from a user device of an email sender addressed to at least one user having an account on the file management system, the received email including an attachment and sent by the external outbound mail server, wherein the file management system is physically separated from the user device and physically separated from the external outbound mail server, and wherein the user device and external outbound mail server are both accessible to the inbound mail server via a communicatively coupled hardware network; selecting from a plurality of email attachment processing rules, at least one sender-defined processing rule based upon the email sender of the received email; processing, by the processing circuitry, the received email according to the at least one selected sender-defined processing rule to determine a target directory in the user's account in which to store the attachment included with the received email; and storing, by the processing circuitry, the attachment in the determined target directory in the user's account.