Patent ID: 9715534
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: generating, by an online content management system, a workspace graphical user interface representing a shared folder backed workspace that provides an integrated environment for manipulating content items in the shared folder and communicating with a plurality of authorized users of the shared folder, the workspace interface including, representations of content items stored in the online shared folder and a message stream that includes messages generated by the plurality of authorized users of the shared folder; assigning a workspace email address to the shared folder; obtaining, by the online content management system, an email message addressed to the workspace email address from an email service of an authorized user of the workspace, wherein the email message is accessible to each of the plurality of authorized users of the shared folder; automatically converting at least a portion of a body of the email message to a second message type; and posting the second message type as a new workspace message in the message stream, wherein the new workspace message is viewed by the plurality of authorized users of the shared folders in the message stream.