Patent ID: 9553837
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A computing system having one or more processors and one or more computer storage devices stored thereon multiple instructions executable by the one or more processors to cause the one or more processors to perform a method comprising: receiving an email from a server, the server having a first copy of the email in a first folder maintained on the server; placing a second copy of the received email in a second folder on the computing system, the second folder being synchronized with the first folder maintained on the server, wherein the received email having an associated value of expiration, the value representing a time period for which the first and second copies of the email are maintained in the first and second folders, respectively, prior to automatic deletion; and automatically deleting the second copy of the email from the second folder on the computing system subsequent to a point in time at which (i) the time period corresponding to the value of expiration has lapsed while (ii) the second copy of the email is still in the second folder on the computing system.