Patent ID: 8631077

Claim:
A computer implemented method for reducing utilization of disk storage space due to duplicate content in electronic mail message transmission, the method comprising: intercepting, at a server, an email from a second user to a first user in a thread of emails between a first user and a second user, the email comprising a first message created by the first user and a second message created by the second user; responsive to determining that the first message includes a first section identifier, extracting the first message from the email, saving the first message in a repository connected to the server, generating a doclink, and replacing the first message in the email with the doclink; responsive to determining that the second message does not include a section identifier, generating a second section identifier, and embedding the second section identifier in the second message; sending the email to the first user at a first computer; and responsive to the first user opening the email at the first computer, automatically resolving the doclink into a representation of the first message so that an entire email is displayed.