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US 6,636,240 B1Granted
System and method for building dynamic e-mail distribution lists from multiple selected documents
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsBrandt C. Centerwall, James L. McGinniss, Jr.
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Abstract
A Lotus Notes agent populates an addressee field of a new memo with, or creates a new distribution list from, a plurality of E-mail addresses dynamically generated from a plurality of documents selected by a user from a list of received E-mail documents in a browser window or other view which is able to access an E-mail facility.
Claims13
A method for building a dynamic distribution list directly from received E-mail documents, comprising:
- receiving a plurality of received E-mail documents, each said document including an E-mail address;
- responsive to user selection of a plurality of selected documents from said plurality of received E-mail documents, extracting said E-mail addresses from said selected documents;
- and
- opening a new document containing said E-mail addresses extracted from said selected documents in said dynamic distribution list for sending said new document;
- thereby building said dynamic distribution list without reference to a user or system administrator predefined database of approved or allowed addresses.
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A method for building a dynamic distribution list, comprising the steps of:
- initializing a distribution list variable;
- receiving at a user terminal from an external network a plurality of mail documents;
- operating said user terminal to select a plurality of user selected documents from said plurality fo mail documents;
- extracting mail addresses from each said user selected document, and loading said mail addresses to said distribution list variable;
- and
- preparing a new document including in said dynamic distribution list addresses loaded to said distribution list variable;
- thereby building said dynamic distribution list without reference to a user or system administrator predefined database of approved or allowed addresses.
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A system for building a dynamic distribution list for an E-Mail document, comprising:
- a user terminal for receiving mail documents from an external network;
- a user browser at said user terminal for selectively displaying information to and receiving selection input from a user;
- an agent;
- and
- said agent being operable for receiving from said user browser a list of selected mail documents selected by said user from a list of said mail documents;
- extracting addressee indicia from each said selected mail document to a distribution list variable;
- and
- creating a new document including in said dynamic distribution list said addressee indicia;
- thereby building said dynamic distribution list without reference to a user or system administrator predefined database of approved or allowed addresses.
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A program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform method steps for building a dynamic distribution list, said method steps comprising:
- receiving from an external communication network directly into a mail box a plurality of received E-mail documents, each said document including an E-mail address generated by a sender of said document;
- responsive to user selection of a plurality of selected documents from said mail box, extracting said E-mail addresses from said selected documents;
- and
- opening a new document containing in said dynamic distribution list said E-mail addresses extracted from said selected list for sending said new document;
- thereby building said dynamic distribution list without reference to a user or system administrator predefined database of approved or allowed addresses.
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An article of manufacture comprising:
- a computer useable medium having computer readable program code means embodied therein for building a dynamic distribution list, the computer readable program means in said article of manufacture comprising:
- computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect initializing a distribution list variable;
- computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect at a user terminal receiving from an external network a plurality of mail documents;
- computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect operating said user terminal to select a plurality of user selected documents from said plurality of mail documents;
- computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect extracting mail addresses from each said user selected document, and loading said mail addresses to said distribution list variable;
- and
- computer readable program code means for causing a computer to effect preparing a new document including in said dynamic distribution list mail addresses from said distribution list variable;
- thereby building said dynamic distribution list without reference to a user or system administrator predefined database of approved or allowed addresses.
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A computer program product or computer program element for building a dynamic distribution list according to the steps of:
- receiving from a user browser a list of mail documents selected by said user from a mail box of E-mail documents received from an external communication network;
- extracting addressee indicia from each mail document in said list directly to a distribution list variable;
- and
- creating a new document including in said dynamic distribution list said addressee indicia;
- thereby building said dynamic distribution list from a mail box of external documents received at said user browser without reference to a user or system administrator predefined database of approved or allowed addressees.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.