Patent ID: 8019822

Claim:
A method for delivering an electronic file attachment comprising: analyzing a transaction specification to determine a specified: electronic file attachment; and intended recipient of the electronic file attachment; determining available delivery options for the electronic file attachment, including: determining that an electronic file attachment direct delivery option is available, in which the electronic file attachment is delivered with the electronic message; and determining that an electronic file attachment redirection delivery option is available, in which the electronic file attachment is omitted from the electronic message sent to the intended recipient and delivered separately into a personal file storage account for the intended recipient; displaying the available delivery options to a user; receiving a delivery option selection from among the available delivery options from the user; and when the delivery option selection comprises the electronic file attachment redirection delivery option: receiving at a messaging server: a username identifying the intended recipient, and a destination platform name identifying an electronic file storage service on which the intended recipient has the personal file storage account; querying a subscription management database with the username and the destination platform name for an access credential that permits sending and storing of the electronic file attachment to the personal file storage account; accessing from the messaging server the personal file storage account on the electronic file storage service; sending the electronic file attachment from the messaging server to the electronic file storage service on which the intended recipient has the personal file storage account; creating an electronic message to the intended recipient omitting the electronic file attachment and including a notification of the electronic file attachment stored in the personal file storage account; and sending the electronic message without the electronic file attachment to the intended recipient.