Delayed electronic mail sending
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsKULVIR S. BHOGAL, WILLIAM A. GRIFFITH, MARK W. TALBOT
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Abstract
A method can include associating an electronic document with an electronic mail message as an attachment and determining that the electronic document is in an uncompleted state using a processor. The method can include replacing the electronic document with an updated version of the electronic document as the attachment to the electronic mail message and sending the electronic mail message with the updated version of the electronic document as the attachment responsive to detecting a completion condition for the electronic document.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- associating an electronic document with an electronic mail message as an attachment;
- determining that the electronic document is in an uncompleted state using a processor;
- and
- responsive to detecting a completion condition for the electronic document, replacing the electronic document with an updated version of the electronic document as the attachment to the electronic mail message and sending the electronic mail message with the updated version of the electronic document as the attachment.
A system comprising:
- a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith;
- and
- a processor coupled to the computer readable storage medium, wherein responsive to executing the computer readable program code, the processor is configured to:
- associate an electronic document with an electronic mail message as an attachment;
- determine that the electronic document is in an uncompleted state;
- and
- responsive to detecting a completion condition for the electronic document, replace the electronic document with an updated version of the electronic document as an attachment to the electronic mail message and send the electronic mail message with the updated version of the electronic document as the attachment.
A computer program product comprising:
- a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising:
- computer readable program code configured to associate an electronic document with an electronic mail message as an attachment;
- computer readable program code configured to determine that the electronic document is in an uncompleted state;
- and
- computer readable program code configured to replace the electronic document with an updated version of the electronic document as an attachment to the electronic mail message and send the electronic mail message with the updated version of the electronic document as the attachment responsive to detecting a completion condition for the electronic document.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.