Patent ID: 8521780
Filing Date: 2013-08-27
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for sharing electronic messages in a multi-tenant database system, the method comprising: receiving, at one or more computer systems associated with the multi-tenant database system, a plurality of emails; storing each email in the plurality of emails in a database associated with at least one tenant in the multi-tenant database system as an entity providing a set of relationships between the entity and selected ones of other entities stored in the database associated with the at least one tenant; automatically determining, with one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems, a set of one or more relationships for each email in the plurality of emails between the email and one or more entities stored in the database associated with the at least one tenant based on at least one email address associated with the email; storing the set of one or more relationships in the database in the entity corresponding to each email in the plurality of emails; receiving, at the one or more computer systems, a request to access a first entity stored in the database associated with the at least one tenant; and retrieving from the database one or more emails based on one or more relationships to the first entity.