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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2011
Applicants:
Michael J. Abbott, Woodbury, MN (US);
Christopher P. Jalbert, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric Richard Koebler, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Inventors:
Michael J. Abbott, Woodbury, MN (US);
Christopher P. Jalbert, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric Richard Koebler, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2013.01); G06F 15/16 (2013.01); G06F 3/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
An email server receives an email sent to an email account and including one or more attachments. The one or more attachments are extracted from the email into one or more temporary storage elements. Content from the temporary storage elements is indexed. The indexed content is stored along with an identifier of the email in an index corresponding to the email account. The one or more temporary storage elements is disposed of after the indexing.