Patent ID: 7233961

Claim:
A system for managing communications involving file entities comprising: means for storing a new entry in a user-extensible token action log, the new entry comprising: a) a new token generated by the system as a random set of symbols, and b) one or more actions associated with the new token, which actions are to be automatically executed at the event of receiving a file entity that has the new token attached via a communication network; means for distributing the new token so that the new token will be attached to one or more file entities such that the token is transmitted together with each attached file entity; means for detecting an event involving a file entity that has been received with an attached token via a communication network, which attached token is from the set of tokens previously stored in the token action log; means for identifying the attached token stored with the file entity involved in the detected event; means for retrieving from the token action log one or more actions which correspond to the identified token and the detected event; and means for executing the retrieved actions.