TREATMENT OF CLOUD-BASED AND LOCAL ATTACHMENTS IN COMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS

摘要

Users of communication applications may be enabled to select from a user-friendly and efficiently provided list of files that may be of interest to them to attach to a correspondence and send to one or more recipients. For example, the communication application may retrieve information from one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) associated with applications of the user to determine the list of files. The files may be local files or cloud-based files, and a variety of criteria may be used to determine, group, and present the files to the user for selection. Once selected by the user, the files or links to cloud destinations of the files may be attached to the correspondence, where the files or links may be displayed in an attachment well or a body of the correspondence. Permissions associated with the attachments may be set by default, by user configuration, and/or modified by user.

主权项

1. A method for treatment of cloud-based and local attachments in a communication application, the method comprising:
detecting a user intent to attach a file to a correspondence; determining a list of local and cloud-based files of interest to the user; presenting the list of the local and cloud-based files to the user for selection; and upon selection of one or more files from the list, attaching one of the selected files or links to locations of the selected files to the correspondence.