Patent ID: 8943144
Filing Date: 2015-01-27
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for providing consolidated communications, comprising: receiving a transmission; determining whether the transmission is similar to a previous transmission by determining whether a similarity threshold is satisfied based on a count of a number of parts in common between the transmission and the previous transmission; computing, using a processor, a difference between the transmission and the previous transmission; storing an indication of the difference between the transmission and previous transmission; consolidating the difference into the previous transmission by modifying the previous transmission to include the difference, wherein the consolidated transmission comprises the previous transmission and the received transmission wherein the received transmission is compressed by having a same string found in the received transmission as in the previous transmission reduced into a suppressed string, and further wherein the suppressed string is associated with the same string for enabling reconstructing of the transmission from the compressed transmission; and indicating the previous transmission as unread, wherein the computing, storing, consolidating and indicating are performed responsive to determining that the transmission is similar to the previous transmission.