Method and system for displaying similar email messages based on message contents
AssigneeCommvault Systems, Inc.
InventorsJun H. Ahn, David Ngo
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Abstract
A method and system for identifying changes to a data set, such as data within a mailbox, and performing actions based on the identified changes is discussed. In some examples, the system receives an indication of a change to a mailbox, creates a change journal entry for the change, and identifies data to be copied via the change journal entry. In some examples, the system leverages the change journal to associate messages with changes to a mailbox.
Claims19
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a computing system cause the computing system to perform a method for displaying email messages to a user, the method comprising:
- accessing a message received at a mailbox, wherein the mailbox is hosted by a mail server;
- extracting content associated with the received message;
- identifying other messages contained in the mailbox having content similar to the extracted content;
- and
- transmitting the identified other messages from the mailbox to a mail application of a mobile device associated with the mailbox,
- wherein the mail application locally stores on the mobile device fewer than all messages stored in the mailbox on the mail server, and
- wherein the mobile device is remotely located from the mail server hosting the mailbox.
A method for displaying email messages to a user, the method comprising:
- accessing a message received at a mailbox, wherein the mailbox is hosted by a mail server;
- extracting content associated with a received message;
- identifying other messages contained in the mailbox having content similar to the extracted content,
- wherein at least one of the identified other messages is not part of a thread of email messages that includes the received message;
- transmitting the identified other messages from the mailbox to a mail application of a computing device associated with the mailbox,
- wherein the mail application locally stores on the computing device fewer than all messages stored in the mailbox, and
- wherein the computing device is remotely located from a mail server hosting the mailbox;
- and
- presenting the received message along with information associated with the identified other messages to a user.
A system for performing a data storage operation for data stored on a mail server, the system comprising:
- an identification component that identifies one or more changes within a data store associated with a mailbox;
- a data transfer component configured to:
- access messages stored within the data store that are associated with the one or more identified changes, and
- copy the accessed messages to a secondary copy of the data store;
- and
- a mailbox component configured to:
- extract content from a message,
- identify other messages in the secondary copy of the data store are similar to the extracted content,
- transmit the other messages to a mail application on a computing device associated with the mailbox, wherein the computing device is remotely located from the mailbox, and
- present the other messages using the mail application.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.