Providing an efficient preview capability for restoring emails backed up to an object storage

US11442822B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• EMC IP Holding Company LLC · US

Inventors

• Shelesh Chopra · Kanchinakote, IN
• Sunil Yadav · Sherpur, IN
• Amarendra Behera · Bengaluru, IN
• Ravi Vijayakumar Chitloor · Kanchinakote, IN
• Himanshu Arora · Champaign, US
• Tushar Dethe · Bengaluru, IN
• Deependra Singh · Kanpur, IN
• Prabhat Kumar Dubey · Gubbi, IN
• Anjana Rao · Mangalore, IN
• Sapna Chauhan · Kanchinakote, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 13, 2021
• Grant date: Sep 13, 2022
• Expiry date: Apr 28, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F16/168
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

In some embodiments, described is a system (and method) for providing an efficient preview capability for emails backed up to a cloud-based object storage. The email preview may be provided as part of an interface allowing a user to select individual emails to restore from the object storage. The system may extract specialized preview information as part of a backup procedure. The preview information may include metadata and email content. For example, the preview information may include various email details such as sender, receiver, subject line, time sent/received, filenames of any attachments, etc. The preview information may also include email content such as particular sentences from the email body containing keywords. The system may also store extracted preview information in a specialized manner such that the preview information may be retrieved without having to access the actual backup data.