File attachment retrieval
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMichael E. Alexander, Jean-Claude Dispensa, Dominique Rossi-Chevrel, Zsolt Szalai
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Abstract
Files located on local or remote storage device are retrieved by determining that a link attachment of an electronic communication received at a computer device matches a pointer of a file directory structure of the computer device. The pointer allows retrieving within the file directory structure a file link and file identification information, and then accessing a file at a local or remote storage device by the file link and using the file identification information.
Claims19
In a computer network, a method of retrieving files located on a local or remote storage device, comprising:
- receiving at a computer device an electronic communication comprising at least one attachment;
- determining whether the at least one attachment is a link attachment;
- in a case where the link attachment matches a pointer of a file directory structure of the computer device:
- retrieving using the pointer of the file directory structure a file link and file identification information;
- and
- accessing a file at a local or remote storage device using the file link and the file identification information.
In a computer network, an apparatus for retrieving files located on a local or remote storage device, comprising:
- a system for receiving at a computer device an electronic communication comprising at least one attachment;
- a system for determining whether the at least one attachment is a link attachment;
- a system for retrieving a file link and file identification information, in a case where the link attachment matches a pointer of a file directory structure of the computer device, using the pointer of the file directory structure;
- and
- a system for accessing a file at a local or remote storage device using the file link and the file identification information.
A computer readable medium having encoded thereon a computer program for performing a method for retrieving files located on a local or remote storage device when the computer program is executed on a computer, the method comprising:
- receiving at a computer device an electronic communication comprising at least one attachment;
- determining whether the at least one attachment is a link attachment;
- in a case where the link attachment matches a pointer of a file directory structure of the computer device:
- retrieving using the pointer of the file directory structure a file link and file identification information;
- and
- accessing a file at a local or remote storage device using the file link and the file identification information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.