US 12,081,501 B2
Smart email template generation based on attachments
Rohit Pradeep Shetty, Bangalore (IN); and Ramanandan Nambannor Kunnath, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to Omnissa, LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by VMWARE, INC.
Filed on Oct. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/961,629.
Prior Publication US 2024/0022531 A1, Jan. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. H04L 51/08 (2022.01); H04L 51/234 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 51/08 (2013.01) [H04L 51/234 (2022.05)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
a computing device comprising a processor and a memory; and
machine-readable instructions stored in the memory that, when executed by the processor, cause the computing device to at least:
monitor, by a client application, an email client to identify an unsent email, the unsent email comprising at least a body and an attachment file;
analyze, by the client application, the attachment file by decoding metadata or contents of the attachment file to determine one or more attachment categories;
search, by the client application, a client datastore using the one or more attachment categories as input to select an email template from a plurality of email templates;
populate, by the client application in cooperation with the email client, the body of the unsent email with the selected email template, the client application decoding the selected email template to replace a data tag with a file name of the attachment file;
identify a recipient of the unsent email; and
analyze one or more previous emails from the recipient to select a recipient category;
wherein each of the one or more previous emails comprise a previous email body, and wherein the machine-readable instructions that analyze one or more previous emails from the recipient to select the recipient category is configured to:
identify an email signature for the recipient from at least one previous email body, wherein the email signature comprises a business title; and
select at least the recipient category associated with the business title.