Patent ID: 7930354

Claim:
A method of generating attachment data at an attachment server for a given attachment document associated with a message received on a mobile device, the method comprising: a) automatically generating an attachment processing request at the mobile device based on at least an indication of the given attachment document, the attachment processing request based on the message received at the mobile device with the indication of the given attachment document, the message comprising embedded automatic attachment selection markers; b) providing one or more of the automatic attachment selection markers in the attachment processing request, the automatic attachment selection markers comprising tokens belonging to document region reserved words and number reserved words, wherein the automatic attachment selection markers are normal text to the mobile device and are special markers to the attachment server; c) receiving an attachment processing request at the attachment server; d) processing the attachment processing request to identify the given attachment document; e) retrieving the given attachment document; f) processing the attachment processing request and the given attachment document to obtain the automatic attachment selection markers for identifying a desired section of the given attachment document for which the attachment data is to be generated based on the document region reserved words and the number reserved words; g) processing said given attachment document according to the automatic attachment selection markers to generate a selection dataset for the attachment data; and h) returning the selection dataset to the mobile device.