Electronic message recipient disposition characteristics
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsDeirdre Baird, Brian Medendorp
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Abstract
A computer implemented method for determining recipient disposition characteristics of an electronic message that was acted upon by an electronic message reader is described. The method includes receiving by a computer system message requests in response to the electronic message reader acting on the electronic message and executing by the computer system one or more rules that compare a value of one or more fields included in the one or more message requests to one or more field values included in the one or more rules.
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1-27. (canceled)
A computer-implemented method, within and by a tracking computer system, for tracking an electronic message between a message server and a client system, comprising:
- receiving a message request associated with the electronic message sent from the message server to the client system;
- evaluating the message request with a rule stored within the tracking computer system;
- and
- identifying, based upon the evaluation, one or more recipient disposition characteristics of the electronic message.
A tracking computer system configured to track an electronic message between a message server and a client system, comprising:
- at least one hardware processor, wherein the at least one hardware processor is configured to initiate and/or perform:
- receiving a message request associated with the electronic message sent from the message server to the client system;
- evaluating the message request with a rule stored within the tracking computer system;
- and
- identifying, based upon the evaluation, one or more recipient disposition characteristics of the electronic message.
A computer program product, comprising:
- a computer usable storage medium having stored therein computer usable instructions, the computer usable instructions for tracking an electronic message between a message server and a client system,
- the computer usable instructions, which when executed on a computer tracking system, cause the computer tracking system to perform:
- receiving a message request associated with the electronic message sent from the message server to the client system;
- evaluating the message request with a rule stored within the tracking computer system;
- and
- identifying, based upon the evaluation, one or more recipient disposition characteristics of the electronic message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.