Methods for sending an email and distributing an email and an email server
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJane Li, Xue Zhe Liu, Zhi Lei Yang, Yan Zheng
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Abstract
The present application relates to methods for sending an email and distributing an email, and an email server. According to the application, a summary is generated for an email to be sent, with the email stored in a sender side server; the summary of the email is sent to a receiver side server; and the email is sent to the receiver side server in response to receiving, by the sender side server, a request for sending the email, the request being sent by a recipient based on the summary. Thus, the network bandwidth, the storage space of the email server and user terminals may be saved.
Claims15
A method for sending an email, comprising steps of:
- generating a summary of an email to be sent, the email being stored in a sender side server;
- sending the summary of the email to a receiver side server;
- receiving from the sender side server a request for sending the e-mail;
- and
- sending the email to the receiver side server in response to receiving, the request for sending the email.
9-14. (canceled)
An email server, comprising:
- an email filter adapted to filter an email according to predetermined criteria;
- a summary generator adapted to generate a summary of an email separately stored from the e-mail;
- a router handler adapted to call an email router to send the summary to receiver email boxes, or directly put the summary into the receiver email boxes;
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- a controller adapted to conduct control of e-mails so that:
- (1) for an email not complying with the criteria filtered out by the email filter, the router handler calls the email router to send the email directly to the receiver email boxes, or puts the email directly into the receiver email boxes;
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- (2) for an email complying with the criteria filtered out by the email filter, the summary generator generates a summary of the email, and the router handler calls the email router to send the summary to the receiver email boxes, or puts the summary directly into the receiver email boxes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.