Patent ID: 9575635
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04M

Claim:
1. A method comprising: presenting, on a display of a computing device, contents of a file in a user interface of a file editing application, where the file was received as an attachment to an electronic message; examining metadata of the file that is received as the attachment to the electronic message, wherein the metadata includes information about the electronic message; based on examining the metadata corresponding to the file, identifying a sender of the electronic message from the information included in the metadata; receiving an input to the user interface of the file editing application for returning the file to a sender of the electronic message; and in response to the input, from metadata automatically generating a reply message directed towards the sender of the electronic message, wherein the sender is identified by examining the information included in the metadata of the file that is received as the attachment; automatically attaching the file to the reply message, wherein automatically attaching the file to the reply message includes presenting indicia in the reply message indicating that the attached file is an edited version of the file received as an attachment to the electronic message; and presenting the reply message on a user interface of an electronic messaging application.