Patent ID: 7693957

Claim:
A data management system comprising: a first transmission portion sending an inquiry mail from a client to a server for inquiring about a folder tree structure at the server; a second transmission portion, at said server, transmitting a pictorial representation of the folder tree structure in text format to said client by mail in response to the inquiry mail sent from said client; a third transmission portion, at said client, designating a storage folder within the folder tree structure contained in the mail sent from said server in the form of a reply to the mail sent from said server by altering the pictorial representation of the folder tree structure contained in the mail sent from said server, and sending a reply mail with the altered pictorial representation of the folder tree structure in text format and an attached file to said server; and a storage portion, at said server, storing the attached file in the storage folder as designated in the reply mail, in response to the reply mail sent from said client.