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US 8,015,251 B2Granted
Method and system for selectively requesting an acknowledgement to recipients of an electronic mail
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsFrederic Bauchot, Gerard Marmigere
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Abstract
The present invention provides a method, system and computer program in a client side of an electronic mail management application, for selectively requesting a read mail acknowledgment to one or a plurality of recipients of a mail among a plurality of recipients.
Claims20
A method in a client side of a mail management application stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, for selectively requesting a read mail acknowledgment to at least one recipient of a mail among a plurality of recipients, said method comprising the steps of:
- creating a mail on a computing machine using said client side of said mail management application, said mail comprising a body and a list with all recipients of said mail;
- receiving a user's command to send said mail;
- receiving at least one of user's commands for selecting among said list of all recipients, predetermined recipients for whom a read mail acknowledgement is requested and predetermined recipients for whom no read mail acknowledgement is requested;
- building a list with said mail management application, after receiving said user's command to send said mail, of said predetermined recipients for whom a read mail acknowledgement is requested;
- building a list with said mail management application, after receiving said user's command to send said mail, of said predetermined recipients for whom no read mail acknowledgement is requested;
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- determining whether said lists of said predetermined recipients for whom a read mail acknowledgement is requested and said predetermined recipients for whom no read mail acknowledgement is requested each contain at least one recipient, and if so, then:
- duplicating the mail;
- associating with a first duplicate of the duplicated mail an indicator for requesting a read mail acknowledgement and sending said first duplicate to the one or plurality of recipients for whom a read mail acknowledgement is requested;
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- sending a second duplicate of the duplicated mail to the one or plurality of recipients for whom no read mail acknowledgement is requested.
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A computer system for selectively requesting a read mail acknowledgment to at least one recipient of a mail among a plurality of recipients, said system comprising:
- means for receiving a user's command to send a mail, said mail comprising a body and a list with all recipients of said mail;
- means for receiving at least one of user's commands for selecting among said list of all recipients, predetermined recipients for whom a read mail acknowledgement is requested and predetermined recipients for whom no read mail acknowledgement is requested;
- means for building a list with said mail management application, after receiving said user's command to send said mail, of said predetermined recipients for whom a read mail acknowledgement is requested;
- means for building a list with said mail management application, after receiving said user's command to send said mail, of said predetermined recipients for whom no read mail acknowledgement is requested;
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- means for determining whether said lists of said predetermined recipients for whom a read mail acknowledgement is requested and said predetermined recipients for whom no read mail acknowledgement is requested each contain at least one recipient, and if so, then:
- means for duplicating the mail;
- means for associating with a first duplicate of the duplicated mail an indicator for requesting a read mail acknowledgement and sending said first duplicate to the one or plurality of recipients for whom a read mail acknowledgement is requested;
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- means for sending a second duplicate of the duplicated mail to the one or plurality of recipients for whom no read mail acknowledgement is requested.
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A computer program stored on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, the program comprising instructions for selectively requesting a read mail acknowledgment to at least one recipient of a mail among a plurality of recipients, said system comprising:
- means for receiving a user's command to send a mail, said mail comprising a body and a list with all recipients of said mail;
- means for receiving at least one of user's commands for selecting among said list of all recipients, predetermined recipients for whom a read mail acknowledgement is requested and predetermined recipients for whom no read mail acknowledgement is requested;
- means for building a list with said mail management application, after receiving said user's command to send said mail, of said predetermined recipients for whom a read mail acknowledgement is requested;
- means for building a list with said mail management application, after receiving said user's command to send said mail, of said predetermined recipients for whom no read mail acknowledgement is requested;
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- means for determining whether said lists of said predetermined recipients for whom a read mail acknowledgement is requested and said predetermined recipients for whom no read mail acknowledgement is requested each contain at least one recipient, and if so, then:
- means for duplicating the mail;
- means for associating with a first duplicate of the duplicated mail an indicator for requesting a read mail acknowledgement and sending said first duplicate to the at least one recipient for whom a read mail acknowledgement is requested;
- and
- means for sending a second duplicate of the duplicated mail to the at least one recipient for whom no read mail acknowledgement is requested.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.