Patent ID: 8352554
Filing Date: 2013-01-08
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: in response to dragging a first email message into an unoccupied activity zone of an email application, defining an activity in the email application, wherein the activity includes an email activity; defining one or more members of the activity; associating at least one piece of content with the activity, thus defining at least one associated piece of content that is accessible by at least a portion of the members of the activity; determining if the at least one piece of content is from a private source and copyable, the at least one piece of content inaccessible by the one or more members of the activity directly from the private source; requesting a stream of the at least one piece of content from the private source wherein the private source is an email server application; obtaining a copy of the at least one piece of content if the at least one piece of content is from the private source and copyable; storing the copy of the at least one piece of content at a location configured to be accessible to the one or more members of the activity if the at least one piece of content is from the private source and copyable; defining a pointer that locates the at least one piece of content, if the at least one piece of content is not from the private source; determining if a user that is not a member of the activity is included in a field of a second email message, wherein the second email message is associated with the activity; and in response to determining that the user is not a member of the activity, presenting in a pop-up message an option to define the user as a member of the activity.