公开(公告)号：DE602006000660T2

公开(公告)日：2009-04-02

申请号：DE602006000660

申请日：2006-01-27

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： GERSTL PETER ,  KARLSSON MAGNUS ,  SEIDER DIRK ,  SUHRE OLIVER

IPC: H04L12/58

Abstract: The present invention relates to electronic mail. In particular, it relates to a method and system for processing electronic mail, wherein mails are stored in a space efficient way by removing redundancy from the content. Prior art is known for doing a limited version of this on a mail client. The mail server according to the invention analyzes each incoming e-mail, and particular sections of its message body, so-called elementary mail segments, are stored in a particular way and using a particular effectively accessible data structure (410,420,430). The advantage is that this mail server based storage mechanism significantly reduces redundancy compared to prior art server-based storage, as at a prior art mail server the overall content of stored mails is full of redundancy. Then , the mail server sends to the addressee a concatenation of such elementary segments, based on the stored contents (440,450). A long-term archive is correspondingly based on said redundancy-reduced storage of mails (460).

公开(公告)号：DE602006000660D1

公开(公告)日：2008-04-24

申请号：DE602006000660

申请日：2006-01-27

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： GERSTL PETER ,  KARLSSON MAGNUS ,  SEIDER DIRK ,  SUHRE OLIVER

IPC: H04L12/58

Abstract: The present invention relates to electronic mail. In particular, it relates to a method and system for processing electronic mail, wherein mails are stored in a space efficient way by removing redundancy from the content. Prior art is known for doing a limited version of this on a mail client. The mail server according to the invention analyzes each incoming e-mail, and particular sections of its message body, so-called elementary mail segments, are stored in a particular way and using a particular effectively accessible data structure (410,420,430). The advantage is that this mail server based storage mechanism significantly reduces redundancy compared to prior art server-based storage, as at a prior art mail server the overall content of stored mails is full of redundancy. Then , the mail server sends to the addressee a concatenation of such elementary segments, based on the stored contents (440,450). A long-term archive is correspondingly based on said redundancy-reduced storage of mails (460).

公开(公告)号：AT389284T

公开(公告)日：2008-03-15

申请号：AT06100935

申请日：2006-01-27

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： GERSTL PETER ,  KARLSSON MAGNUS ,  SEIDER DIRK ,  SUHRE OLIVER

IPC: H04L12/58

Abstract: The present invention relates to electronic mail. In particular, it relates to a method and system for processing electronic mail, wherein mails are stored in a space efficient way by removing redundancy from the content. Prior art is known for doing a limited version of this on a mail client. The mail server according to the invention analyzes each incoming e-mail, and particular sections of its message body, so-called elementary mail segments, are stored in a particular way and using a particular effectively accessible data structure (410,420,430). The advantage is that this mail server based storage mechanism significantly reduces redundancy compared to prior art server-based storage, as at a prior art mail server the overall content of stored mails is full of redundancy. Then , the mail server sends to the addressee a concatenation of such elementary segments, based on the stored contents (440,450). A long-term archive is correspondingly based on said redundancy-reduced storage of mails (460).