Drag and drop forward e-mail reply utility
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorJEFF K. WILSON
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Abstract
Methods and Systems are provided for efficiently forwarding e-mail. The e-mail is forwarded in response to being dragging and dropping it into another e-mail. A user selects the e-mail to be forwarded, drags and drops it into another e-mail with the desired distribution list, resulting in a third e-mail being created addressed to the desired distribution list and including the e-mail to be forwarded.
Claims19
A method of forwarding an e-mail comprising:
- selecting an e-mail for forwarding;
- associating the selected e-mail with an existing e-mail;
- and
- creating a new e-mail in response to the selected e-mail being associated with the existing e-mail, said new e-mail including information from the selected e-mail;
- wherein said new e-mail is configured to be forwarded to a forwarding distribution list.
A software product comprising an electronically readable medium including a program of instructions, wherein the program of instructions upon being executed on a device causes the device to:
- select an e-mail for forwarding;
- associate the selected e-mail with an existing e-mail;
- and
- create a new e-mail in response to the selected e-mail being associated with the existing e-mail, said new e-mail including the selected e-mail;
- wherein said new e-mail is configured to be forwarded to a forwarding distribution list.
A system configured for forwarding a selected e-mail, the system comprising:
- an electronically readable storage medium configured to store an e-mail application program;
- a user input device responsive to user inputs for selecting an e-mail for forwarding;
- a processor configured to process instructions in the e-mail application to associate the selected e-mail with an existing e-mail and create, in response to the selected e-mail being associated with the existing e-mail, a new e-mail including the selected e-mail;
- wherein said new e-mail is configured to be forwarded to a forwarding distribution list based on an existing distribution list of the existing e-mail.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.