System and method for recovering electronic mail messages deleted from an information handling system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10097488-B2
Application number	US-201213474324-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 17, 2012
Priority date	May 17, 2012
Publication date	Oct 9, 2018
Grant date	Oct 9, 2018

Abstract

An information handling system detects that a first electronic mail message has been permanently deleted from a local memory of a first information handling system, generates a second electronic mail message to request a recovery of the first electronic mail message, attaches a file to the second electronic mail message, and sends the second electronic mail message to a plurality of second information handling systems.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
detecting that a first electronic mail message has been permanently deleted from a local memory of a first information handling system;
generating a second electronic mail message to request a recovery of the first electronic mail message;
attaching a file to the second electronic mail message, the file including search criteria associated with the recovery of the first electronic mail message;
sending the second electronic mail message to a plurality of second information handling systems;
receiving a reply electronic mail message from one of the second information handling systems, the reply electronic mail message including a first recovered electronic mail message as an attachment to the reply electronic mail message;
downloading the first recovered electronic mail message from the reply electronic mail message;
storing the first recovered electronic mail message attached to the reply electronic mail message in the local memory of the first information handling system; and
storing a copy of the first recovered electronic mail message in a folder of an email application of the first information handling system.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
receiving multiple additional reply electronic mail messages including a plurality of second recovered electronic mail messages that match the search criteria;
comparing the second recovered electronic mail messages and the first recovered electronic mail message; and
deleting any duplicate electronic mail messages of the second recovered electronic mail messages and the first reply electronic mail message.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
displaying a message on a display device of the information handling system indicating that the recovery of the first electronic mail message was successful.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
receiving the first electronic mail message from a server in response to a storage capacity of the server being exceeded; and
storing the first electronic mail message received from the server into the local memory of the first information handling system prior to detecting that the first electronic mail message has been deleted from the local memory.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the search criteria for the first electronic mail message is selected from a group consisting of a size range, a date range, subject line keywords, and message body keywords.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein a subject line of the second mail message includes particular words to indicate that the second electronic mail message is an electronic mail message recovery request.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the second electronic mail message is sent to each of the second information handling systems via a client-to-client communication.

8. A method comprising:
receiving, at a first information handling system, a first electronic mail message requesting a recovery of a second electronic mail message, wherein the first electronic mail message is from a second information handling system, and wherein the first electronic mail message includes search criteria associated with the second electronic mail message;
determining, at the first information handling system, that electronic mail message recovery is enabled;
scanning electronic mail messages stored in the first information handling system for matches that match the search criteria;
attaching the matches to a third electronic mail message; and
sending the third electronic mail message to the second information handling system as a reply to the first electronic mail message.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprising:
displaying a message on a display device of the first information handling system, wherein the message asks whether a user wants to enable the electronic mail message recovery.

10. The method of claim 8 further comprising:
detecting a global electronic mail message recovery prior to the determining that the electronic mail message recovery is enabled, wherein the global electronic mail message recovery indicates that all electronic mail message recovery is allowed.

11. The method of claim 8 wherein the search criteria is selected from a group consisting of a size range, a date range, subject line keywords, and message body keywords.

12. The method of claim 8 wherein a subject line of the third electronic mail message includes particular words to indicate that the third electronic mail message is a response to an electronic mail message recovery request.

13. The method of claim 8 wherein the first electronic mail message is received from the second information handling system via a client-to-client communication.

14. An information handling system comprising:
a memory; and
a set of instruction stored in the memory executable by a processor to cause the processor to:
detect that a first electronic mail message has been permanently deleted from a local memory of a first information handling system;
generate a second electronic mail message to request a recovery of the first electronic mail message;
attach a file to the second electronic mail message, the file including search criteria associated with the recovery of the first electronic mail message, the file also including a digital authentication signature that is utilized to verify the second electronic mail message;
send the second electronic mail message to a second information handling systems;
receive a reply electronic mail message from one of the second information handling systems the reply electronic mail message including a first recovered electronic mail message as an attachment to the reply electronic mail message;
store the first recovered electronic mail message attached to the reply electronic mail message in the local memory of the first information handling system; and
store a copy of the first recovered electronic mail message in a folder of an email application of the first information handling system.

15. The information handling system of claim 14 wherein the set of instruction further cause the processor to:
receive multiple additional reply electronic mail messages including a plurality of second recovered electronic mail messages that match the search criteria;
compare the second recovered electronic mail messages and the first recovered electronic mail message; and
delete any duplicate electronic mail messages of the second recovered electronic mail messages and the first reply electronic mail message.

16. The information handling system of claim 14 wherein the set of instruction further cause the processor to:
display a message on a display device of the information handling system indicating that the recovery of the first electronic mail message was successful.

17. The information handling system of claim 14 wherein the set of instruction further cause the processor to:
receive the first electronic mail message from a server in response to a storage capacity of the server being exceeded; and
store the first electronic mail message received from the server into the local memory of the information handling system prior to detecting that the first electronic mail message has been deleted from the local memory.

18. The information handling system of claim 14 wherein the search criteria for the first electronic mail message is selected from a group consisting of a size range, a date range, subject line keywords, and message body keywords.

19. The information handling system of claim 14 wherein a subject line of t

Assignees

• Deepaganesh Paulraj
• Dell Products Lp

Inventors

• Deepaganesh Paulraj

Classifications

• H04L51/08 Primary

  Annexed information, e.g. attachments · CPC title

• G06Q10/107

  Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing] · CPC title