Patent ID: 8443045
Filing Date: 2013-05-14
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer readable media containing a computer program that causes a computer system loaded with that program and other software to implement the following process in connection with a selected received e-mail having content and an attachment in the order recited: receiving e-mails in an email application and placing them in a user's personal electronic mailbox; receiving a user-selection of a received e-mail in the user's personal electronic mailbox having content and an attachment; providing a user-actuated control in an e-mail application; receiving information indicating that the user-actuated control in a user interface to the e-mail application has been activated while the received e-mail is selected; in response to the receiving, copying the content and the attachment into a single, new container that is separate from the user's personal electronic mailbox, the single, new container containing both the content and the attachment in a binary format native to a word processing program with the attachment being illustrated in the single, new container as an icon; and indexing and storing the single container in a document management system that is associated with and separate from the word processing program and that allows a user to associate documents with multiple classification categories and that is separate from any word processing application that may be associated with the document management system and from the user's personal electronic mailbox, including presenting an indexing dialog box to the user providing a set of indexing fields for the user to select that allow the user to associate the single container with multiple classification categories and indexing the container in the document management system according to the choices that the user selects.