Automatic hyperlinking for content services
US11144612B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 7, 2020 |
| Grant date | Oct 12, 2021 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 8, 2040 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q10/10
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and method system for providing auto-hyperlinking in endpoint content. A system includes email clients installed on remote client devices and managed by an application management service. The system further includes an auto-hyperlinking system having: a configuration file that regular expressions (regex's), wherein each regex is associated with an application and a URL template, and wherein each regex is coded to identify a string and parse an associated parameter; and a process that modifies an inputted email including: searching the inputted email for an email text string specified by the set of regex's; in response to locating a matching email text string as specified by an associated regex, parsing the matching email text string to extract a parameter value; and converting the email text string within the inputted email into a hyperlink based on an associated URL template, wherein the hyperlink includes the parameter value.
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