Patent ID: 7783708

Claim:
An attachment browser system, comprising: one or more processors; and memory to store instructions executable by the one or more processors, the instruction to store: a selection of email communications received from multiple computing device sources via a network adapter of a host computing device, each of the email communications having at least one attached file accessible by the host computing device; an organized collection of attached files that have a representative image of each attached file organized for display via a video adapter according to an attachment attribute of the respective attached file, the attachment attribute including a user-defined label and at least one of a size of the attachment or a file type of the attachment, the user-defined label being used to select the attachments for the organized collection of attached files, the organized collection being maintained by the host computing device, wherein the organized collection is a cluster of attached files that selectively excludes at least one attached file based on the attachment attribute; a message portion of each email communication displayed via a video adapter next to an associated representative image to maintain the association of an email communication and a respective attached file; a frequent contacts portion comprising one or more frequent contact images associated with frequent user contacts; and an association between a selected representative image and a selected frequent contact image that are superimposed via drag-and-drop, wherein the drag-and-drop causes: merging of an attached file associated with the selected representative image and a frequent user contact represented by the selected frequent contact image; determining a communication type based on whether the frequent user contact is on-line or off-line; and communicating the attached file to the frequent user contact using the communication type.