Method and apparatus for managing e-mail attachments in e-mail communications
AssigneeMotorola Mobility LLC
InventorAmit Kumar Agrawal
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for managing e-mail attachments in e-mail communications includes an electronic computing device configured to determine that a second e-mail account is receiving from a first e-mail account a first e-mail, of an e-mail thread, having a first e-mail attachment. The method further includes determining that a second e-mail of the e-mail thread is being composed for the second e-mail account and responsively providing a list of received e-mail attachments for the e-mail thread, wherein the list indicates the first e-mail attachment.
Claims20
A method performed by an electronic computing device for managing e-mail attachments in e-mail communications, the method comprising:
- determining that a second e-mail account is receiving from a first e-mail account a first e-mail, of an e-mail thread, having a first e-mail attachment;
- determining that a second e-mail of the e-mail thread is being composed for the second e-mail account;
- and
- responsively providing a first list of received e-mail attachments for the e-mail thread, wherein the first list indicates the first e-mail attachment.
An electronic computing device configured to manage e-mail attachments in e-mail communications, the electronic computing device comprising:
- at least one communication interface configured to receive and send e-mail communications;
- and
- a processing element operatively coupled to the at least one communication interface, wherein the processing element is configured to:
- determine that a second e-mail account is receiving from a first e-mail account a first e-mail, of an e-mail thread, having a first e-mail attachment;
- determine that a second e-mail of the e-mail thread is being composed for the second e-mail account;
- responsively provide a list of received e-mail attachments for the e-mail thread, wherein the list indicates the first e-mail attachment;
- and
- detect a selection of a set of outgoing e-mail attachments from the list of received e-mail attachments, wherein the set of outgoing e-mail attachments is attached to the second e-mail.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.