Patent ID: 7693948
Filing Date: 2010-04-06
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An article comprising a non-transitory machine-readable storage, medium tangibly embodying instructions that when performed by one or more machines result in operations comprising: receiving a plurality of e-mails, at least a portion of the e-mails containing attachments; separately storing the plurality of e-mails and the plurality of attachments in at least one data repository; indexing the plurality of e-mails and the plurality of attachments based on at least one of header information in the e-mails or content of the plurality of e-mails and the plurality of attachments; logically associating the e-mails and the attachments to generate a plurality of hierarchical taxonomies comprising nodes characterizing the plurality of e-mails and the plurality of attachments, the hierarchical taxonomies including, for a thread of e-mails, a root node comprising an initial e-mail for the thread, first generation child nodes depending from the root node comprising responses to the initial e-mail, and second generation child nodes depending from at least one first generation child node comprising responses to an e-mail associated with a corresponding first generation child node such that the thread of e-mails includes at least two second generation child nodes that depend on different first generation child nodes; and rendering a taxonomy for a user, the rendered taxonomy solely including e-mails and attachments that the user is authorized to access such that the taxonomy includes at least one second generation node that the user is authorized to access while omitting a first generation node upon which such second generation node depends that the user is not authorized to access; wherein: at least a portion of the stored e-mails and the attachment are associated with at least one access control list; and access to stored e-mails and attachments is limited to authorized users defined by the corresponding access control list.