Method and Apparatus for Aggregating E-Mail Reply Data
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsSteven Belz, James Pratt, Marc Sullivan
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Abstract
A method is disclosed comprising sending an original e-mail message to a plurality of recipients, and receiving a plurality of received e-mails. For each of the plurality of received e-mails, the method includes determining if each received e-mail is a reply to the original e-mail message, and extracting data from each received e-mail that is a reply to the original e-mail message. The extracted data is aggregated to form aggregated data, and information relating to the aggregated data is displayed. The information may be displayed on a computer monitor along with the original e-mail message.
Claims35
A method comprising
- sending a first original e-mail message to a plurality of recipients;
- receiving a plurality of received e-mails;
- for each of the plurality of received e-mails, determining if each received e-mail is a reply to the first original e-mail message;
- extracting data from each received e-mail that is a reply to the first original e-mail message, wherein each received e-mail includes transmission content and body content, and wherein the step of extracting eliminates some of the body content information;
- aggregating the extracted data to form aggregated data;
- and
- displaying information relating to the aggregated data.
An apparatus comprising
- means for sending a first original e-mail message to a plurality of recipients;
- means for receiving a plurality of received e-mails;
- means for determining if each received e-mail is a reply to the first original e-mail message;
- means for extracting data from each received e-mail that is a reply to the first original e-mail message, wherein each received e-mail includes transmission content and body content, and wherein the means for extracting eliminates some of the body content information;
- means for aggregating the extracted data to form aggregated data;
- and
- means for displaying information relating to the aggregated data.
A computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions which, when executed by a processor, perform the steps of:
- sending a first original e-mail message to a plurality of recipients;
- receiving a plurality of received e-mails;
- for each of the plurality of received e-mails, determining if each received e-mail is a reply to the first original e-mail message;
- extracting data from each received e-mail that is a reply to the first original e-mail message, wherein each received e-mail includes transmission content and body content, and wherein the step of extracting eliminates some of the body content information;
- aggregating the extracted data to form aggregated data;
- and
- displaying information relating to the aggregated data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.