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Systems and methods for uniformly identifying e-mail attachments
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Inventors: Johnson, Jr., Swen R.;
Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Stamford, CT)
Primary Examiner: Wong; Don
Assistant Examiner: Filipczyk; Marc
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Oliff & Berridge, PLC
A uniform identifier record for a digital file comprises a unique identifier field and a textual identifier field. The unique identifier field may comprise a uniform resource locator. Alternately, the unique identifier field may comprise an integer. In one embodiment, the unique identifier is created by adding a constant value to a last prior unique identifier. The textual information is a user-friendly string identifying the file. In applications where the file identified by the uniform identifier record is associated with a separate file, the uniform identifier record is appended to the associated file. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The document creator applications, e-mail software, communication software, and mobile information device-resident browsers come from various suppliers.
Existing methods for accessing the attachments are ad-hoc, and do not work for many combinations of these components.
As outlined above, conventional e-mail attachment identification techniques are typically proprietary and dissimilar.
Moreover, conventional methods for accessing e-mail attachments do not work for many software component combinations.
This invention provides systems and methods for uniformly identifying e-mail attachments.
This invention separately provides systems and methods for uniformly identifying e-mail attachments from mobile information devices.
In various exemplary embodiments according to this invention, an electronic file is identified by a record including a unique identifier field and/or a user-friendly textual field.
The unique identifier field may be any alphanumeric string that can uniquely identify the document.
In various exemplary embodiments, the unique identifier is a uniform resource locator.
In various other exemplary embodiments, the unique identifier is an integer.
This alphanumeric string may be generated using any known technique.
For example, a unique integer identifier may be generated by adding a value incrementor to a previous unique identifier.
In various exemplary embodiments of the systems and methods according to this invention, the user-friendly text is the name of the electronic file.
In various other exemplary embodiments, the user-friendly text is a title or text string obtained or extracted from the document, where the title or text string is different from the name of the document.
In various exemplary embodiments of the systems and methods according to this invention, the uniform identifier record is appended to an electronic file to which the file identified by the uniform identifier record is associated.
The electronic file may be e-mail.
The associated file may be an e-mail attachment
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