Patent ID: 9660946
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method of managing electronic mail file attachments, comprising: maintaining a mail-attachment connection table identifying a plurality of mail storage locations for storing electronic mails; and for each of the plurality of mail storage locations, identifying a plurality of attachment storage locations for storing attachments to the electronic mails stored in the each mail storage location; receiving a request from a user to attach or detach a specified file attachment from a specified electronic mail; storing the specified electronic mail in one of said mail storage locations; using said one of the mail storage locations to identify a location to store said specified file attachment, including associating said one of the mail storage locations with one of the attachment storage locations identified in the table for storing attachments to electronic mails stored in the one of the mail storage locations; storing the specified file attachment in the associated attachment storage location; and incrementing a count of a number of times said one of the mail storage locations is associated with said one of the attachment storage locations for storing attachments to the electronic mails stored in said one of the mail storage locations.