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Patent No.:

US 8185591 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2005

Systems and methods for viewing email attachments as thumbnails

Applicant:

Darren Lewis, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventor:

Darren Lewis, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Primary Examiner:

Ian N Moore

Assistant Examiner:

Kiet Tang

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2011.01); G06F 3/048 (2006.01); G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method of displaying attachments associated with an electronic message includes, in response to a single user selection of a link to an electronic message, fetching from a document storage system an electronic message and attachment information associated with the electronic message. The attachment information includes one or more images, each image corresponding to at least a predefined portion of a respective attachment associated with the electronic message. The electronic message and the attachment information are displayed in an instance of a client application (e.g., a web browser window). From the images associated with the attachments, a user can have a quick preview of the contents of the attachments without having to download anyone of them.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Lewis, Darren. (2012). Systems and methods for viewing email attachments as thumbnails (U.S. Patent No. 8185591). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8185591

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