Patent Document ID: 7574744
Application ID: 11580411

Base Claim:
1. A system for duplicating documents of disparate types for facilitating searching of such documents, said system comprising: storage means for storing at least one original file, each containing no more than one original document, said original file being in a first format; processing means for determining that said original document is a component document of a compound document, extracting said component document from said compound document and storing said component document in said original file; and conversion means for converting said original file from said first format to a canonical format thereby generating a duplicate file containing a duplicate document of said original document, whereby searching of such documents is facilitated.

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Claim 7:
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein said compound document is an electronic mail folder, an electronic mail message having one or more attachments thereto, an electronic mail message having one or more additional electronic mail messages embedded therein, an execution file or a zip file.