Substituting URL for attachment in forwarding electronic content
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorPeter Bernhard Kaars
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Abstract
A service on a data network verifies if an attachment to a sender's e-mail has a copy of an electronic document available from a source on the data network If the document is available from this source, the service strips the attachment from the e-mail body and replaces it with a URL to save bandwidth and storage space.
Claims8
A method of controlling communication of content information from a sender to a receiver via a data network, the method comprising:
- verifying if the content information is available from a source other than the sender;
- and
- if the content information is available from the other source, substituting for the content information a pointer to the other source.
Software for cooperation with an email application, the software verifying if an attachment to a specific email to be sent is available from the Web.
Software for cooperation with an Instant Messaging application, the software verifying if a file to be sent by a user via a data network is available from a source on the data network independent of the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.