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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2010
Naveen Goel, Uttar Pradesh, IN;
Mayur Hemani, New Delhi, IN;
Hemant Virmani, New Delhi, IN;
Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
E-mail correspondence is repurposed to save paper and ink. An indication that a printout of e-mail correspondence from a printer has been requested is received. Further, a plurality of e-mail messages that belong to an e-mail conversation tree is detected. In addition, the plurality of e-mail messages in the e-mail conversation tree is reordered according to a respective timestamp associated with each e-mail message in the plurality of e-mail messages. The respective timestamp indicates a time of transmission. A root e-mail message is determined according to an earliest respective timestamp. The root e-mail message is a root node of the e-mail conversation tree. Further, a plurality of content blocks from the root e-mail message is recorded as a set of print blocks. In addition, a plurality of subsequent e-mail message content blocks with the set of print blocks.