Sorting parsed attachments from communications

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10474428-B2
Application number	US-201514873220-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 2, 2015
Priority date	Oct 2, 2015
Publication date	Nov 12, 2019
Grant date	Nov 12, 2019

Abstract

Parsed attachments from email communications may be sorted. In some examples, an application, such as an email processing application, may display email summaries associated with emails within an email summary view of the email application interface. A selected email associated with a selected email summary may be displayed in an email view. The email processing application may identify one or more attachments within the emails. Attachment summaries associated with the one or more attachments may be displayed within an attachment summary view of the email application interface.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computing device for sorting parsed attachments from email communications, the computing device comprising:
a memory configured to store instructions associated with an email processing application;
one or more processors coupled to the memory, the one or more processors executing an email application interface of the email processing application in conjunction with the instructions stored in the memory, wherein the one or more processors are configured to
display email summaries associated with emails within an email summary view of the email application interface, wherein at least two of the emails includes an attachment and wherein an indication of an included attachment is displayed in each email summary associated with an email that includes an attachment, and wherein the email summaries are chronologically grouped;
detect an activation of an attachment element displayed in proximity to the email summary view;
identify a plurality of attachments included within the emails;
display an attachment summary associated with each of the identified plurality of attachments within an attachment summary view of the email application interface separate from the email summary view, wherein the attachment summaries are displayed within the attachment summary view according to a same chronological grouping as the email summaries as displayed within the email summary view and wherein each attachment summary includes information regarding the associated attachment; and
detect an activation of a sorting element on the attachment summary view and, in response to the activation of the sorting element, update the attachment summaries displayed within the attachment summary view of the email application interface to sort the attachment summaries based on one or more of: an author of associated emails, a recipient of associated emails, a priority associated with the emails and assigned by the author of associated emails, and a timestamp of associated emails.

2. The computing device of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
detect an activation of a sorting element on the attachment summary view to sort the attachment summaries based on one or more of: a file type of the attachments and a metadata type associated with the attachments.

3. The computing device of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
detect an activation of one of the attachment summaries on the attachment summary view; and
in response to detecting a modify action to modify one or more of the attachments associated with the selected attachment summary, present the attachments associated with the selected attachment summary in the attachment summary view along with one or more edit elements to allow editing of one or more of the attachments.

4. The computing device of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
detect an activation of a sorting element on the attachment summary view to sort the attachment summaries based on an author of the emails associated with the attachment summaries;
detect an activation of two or more of the attachment summaries on the attachment summary view based on the author of the associated emails; and
in response to detecting a display action to display the attachments associated with the selected attachment summaries, present the attachments associated with the selected attachment summaries in a slideshow on an attachment view.

5. The computing device of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
detect an activation of one of the attachment summaries on the attachment summary view; and
in response to detecting a move action to move one or more attachments associated with the selected attachment summary, move the one or more attachments associated with the selected attachment summary to a storage location associated with a move action.

6. The computing device of claim 5 , wherein the storage location includes one of an online storage service, another computing device, a mass storage device, and a removable storage medium.

7. The computing device of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
detect an activation of two or more of the attachment summaries on the attachment summary view; and
in response to detecting a display action to display the attachments associated with the selected attachment summaries, present the attachments associated with the selected attachment summaries in an attachment view.

8. The computing device of claim 7 , wherein the attachments associated with the selected attachment summaries are displayed in a slideshow in the attachment view.

9. The computing device of claim 7 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:
in response to detecting a move action to move the attachments, move the attachments associated with the selected attachment summaries to a storage location associated with a move action.

10. A method for sorting parsed attachments from communications, the method comprising:
displaying communications summaries associated with the communications within a communication summary view of a communication application interface, wherein at least two of the communications includes an attachment and wherein an indication of an included attachment is displayed in each communication summary associated with a communication that includes an attachment, and wherein the communication summaries are chronologically grouped;
detecting an activation of an attachment element displayed in a proximity to the communication summary view;
identifying a plurality of attachments included within the communications; and
displaying an attachment summary associated with each of the identified plurality of attachments within an attachment summary view of the communication application interface separate from the communication summary view, wherein the attachment summaries are displayed within the attachment summary view of the communication application according to a same chronological grouping as the communication summaries as displayed within the communication summary view and wherein each attachment summary includes information regarding the associated attachment; and
detecting an activation of a sorting element on the attachment summary view and, in response to the activation of the sorting element, updating the attachment summaries displayed within the attachment summary view of the communication application interface to sort the attachment summaries based on one or more of: an author of associated communications, a recipient of associated communications, a priority associated with the communications and assigned by the author of associated communications, and a timestamp of associated communications.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
displaying a selected communication as a rich preview on the communication view of the communication application interface.

12. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
displaying a selected attachment from the attachments as a rich preview on an attachment view of the communication application interface.

13. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
detecting an activation of one of the attachment summaries displayed on the attachment summary view;
presenting a selected attachment associated with the selected attachment summary in the attachment view; and
in response to detecting a move action to move the selected attachment, moving the selected attachment associated with the selected attachment summary to a storage location associated with the move action.

14. The method

Assignees

• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Masterson Joey
• Simpson Jr Russell Lee
• Smirnov Ilya
• Limont Paul
• Fern Kip
• Cook Jason
• Catrinescu Elena
• Steplyk Hayley
• Meyers David

Classifications

• G06F40/205

  Parsing · CPC title

• G06F40/123

  Storage facilities · CPC title

• G06Q10/107 Primary

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

• G06F40/166

  Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting · CPC title

• G06F7/08 Primary

  Sorting, i.e. grouping record carriers in numerical or other ordered sequence according to the classification of at least some of the information they carry (by merging two or more sets of carriers in ordered sequence G06F7/16) · CPC title