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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2005
Igor L. Belakovskiy, Cambridge, MA (US);
Niklas Heidloff, Satzkotten, DE;
David A. Brooks, Providence, RI (US);
Craig R. Wolpert, Holliston, MA (US);
Hong Dai, Westford, MA (US);
Igor L. Belakovskiy, Cambridge, MA (US);
Niklas Heidloff, Satzkotten, DE;
David A. Brooks, Providence, RI (US);
Craig R. Wolpert, Holliston, MA (US);
Hong Dai, Westford, MA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
When a message having at least one attachment is obtained for indexing, it is indexed as N+1 separate documents, where N is the number of attached documents. If the message is part of a message thread, then information regarding the last message in the thread is retrieved, and search index attachment meta data for the last message is extracted. A unique identifier is computed for the newly obtained attachments, and used to search for matches in the attachments for the last message in the thread. If there is a match, then the newly obtained attachment is not indexed, but the unique identifier of the previously indexed matching attachment is added to a body index document for the new message. A unique identifier associated with the new message is also added to a list of parent identifiers associated with the attachment.