Method and system for low-redundancy e-mail handling

摘要

A method of low-redundancy e-mail handling, wherein: e-mail data is selected, attachments of e-mails comprised in the e-mail data are detached, stored and replaced with references accordingly, and wherein further e-mail threads comprised in the e-mail data are identified and split in separate e-mails, duplicates of e-mails are deleted while maintaining their e-mail references, differences between a first e-mail and an immediately preceding second e-mail of the same thread are identified, generating difference data, the first e-mail is replaced by the difference data, and a reference to the second e-mail is inserted therein, the e-mails and references to their predecessors and successors in the same thread are stored in a data storage, and a graph-based interface is generated for the stored e-mails and references, and an e-mail server computer device, e-mail client computer device, data processing program, computer program product, and computer data signal therefor.

主权项

1. A method of low-redundancy e-mail handling, comprising:
selecting E-mail data comprising attachments; detaching and locally storing the attachments of e-mails in a data storage, and inserting references to the locally stored attachments in the e-mails; identifying E-mail threads in the e-mail data and splitting the E-mail threads into separate ones of the e-mails; deleting duplicates of the e-mails while maintaining references in the duplicates of the e-mails; identifying differences between a first e-mail and an immediately preceding second e-mail of a same one of the E-mail threads, and generating difference data for the identified differences; replacing the first e-mail with the difference data, and inserting a reference to the second e-mail in the difference data; storing the e-mails and references to their predecessors and successors in the same thread in a data storage; and, generating a graph-based interface for the stored e-mails and references, wherein a node represents an e-mail message and an edge represents a reference between e-mail messages, and the graph-based interface provides functionality of an e-mail inbox interface.