Back to results
US 9,426,109 B1Granted
Selective forwarding of components of an attached archive in email system
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsSwaminathan Balasubramanian, Ravi P. Bansal, Sandip D. Mahajan, Haaris A. Shaikh
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A communication management system. A computer receives an electronic communication including an attachment and selectively forwards components of the attachment to multiple recipients based on associating the recipients with the components.
Claims1
A method for managing transmission of electronic communications having attachments, comprising:
- receiving an electronic communication from a user, the electronic communication comprising an attachment having multiple components with associated file formats;
- assigning the multiple components of the attachment to recipients in a list of recipients comprising:
- determining one or more recipients from the list of recipients have corresponding profiles, and wherein each corresponding profile identifies a job role assigned to the one or more recipients;
- and
- assigning one or more components from the multiple components based on the associated file formats and the job role assigned to the one or more recipients;
- and
- sending the electronic communication to the recipients, wherein the electronic communication to a given recipient among the recipients includes the one or more components of the attachment assigned to the given recipient.
4 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.