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US 2011/0219085 A1Published application
Method and system for message thread compression
AssigneeResearch In Motion Limited
InventorsNeil P. ADAMS, Harry R. MAJOR
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Abstract
A method for compressing electronic mail messages each having a message thread for storage in a storage device, comprising: identifying one or more sections of each message thread; assigning a respective identifier to each section; storing one occurrence of each section in the storage device for retrieval using its identifier; replacing each section in each thread by its identifier to thereby compress the messages; and, storing the messages in the storage device.
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A method for a communication device, the method comprising:
- identifying a section of message text in one or more later messages, the section of message text being duplicative with message text in a previous message;
- assigning an identifier to the identified section of message text;
- storing one occurrence of the identified section of message text in a storage device for retrieval using the identifier;
- and
- storing the one or more later messages in compressed form by replacing the identified section of message text in the one or more later messages with the identifier.
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A system comprising:
- a processor coupled to the storage device and to an interface to a network and adapted for:
- identifying a section of message text in one or more later messages, the section of message text being duplicative with message text in a previous message;
- assigning an identifier to the identified section of message text;
- storing one occurrence of the identified section of message text in a storage device for retrieval using the identifier;
- and
- storing the one or more later messages in compressed form by replacing the identified section of message text in the one or more later messages with the identifier.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.