Email question object ownership and status tracking

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• one or more non-transitory storage mediums, which store program instructions executable by said one or more processors, said one or more processors executing the program instructions causing the system to:
• establish one or more questions within an email message from a sender to a set of recipients;
• assign a unique question identifier to each of the one or more questions within metadata of the email message;
• indicate a question owner for each of the one or more questions within metadata of the email message;
• convey the email message to the set of recipients;
• receive an explicit answer to at least a portion of the one or more questions from an answer provider, wherein the answer provider is one of the recipients;
• associate the explicit answer with the corresponding one of the questions within metadata of the email message;
• indicate the answer provider within metadata of the email message;
• and
• automatically modify the email message to present the explicit answer and the answer provider within the email message, wherein the email message containing the one or more questions is continuously updated at computing devices of the sender and the set of recipients to reflect a current status of the one or more questions, wherein user interfaces of each of the set of recipients is provided at least three options, said at least three options comprising options (i) to indicate ownership of each of the one or more questions, (ii) to answer each of the one or more questions, and (iii) to explicitly indicate non-ownership of each of the one or more questions and wherein the set of recipients are prompted to select one of the at least three options.

A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer usable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code comprising:

• computer usable program code stored in a non-transitory storage medium, executed by a processor to establish one or more questions within an email message from a sender to a set of recipients;
• computer usable program code stored in a non-transitory storage medium executed by a processor to assign a unique question identifier to each of the one or more questions within metadata of the email message;
• computer usable program code stored in a non-transitory storage medium, executed by a processor to indicate a question owner for each of the one or more questions within metadata of the email message;
• computer usable program code stored in a non-transitory storage medium, executed by a processor to convey the email message to the set of recipients;
• computer usable program code stored in a non-transitory storage medium, executed by a processor to receive an explicit answer to at least a portion of the one or more questions from an answer provider, wherein the answer provider is one of the recipients;
• computer usable program code stored in a non-transitory storage medium, executed by a processor it is operable to associate the explicit answer with the corresponding one of the questions within metadata of the email message;
• computer usable program code stored in a non-transitory storage medium executed by a processor to indicate the answer provider within metadata of the email message;
• and
• computer usable program code stored in a non-transitory storage medium, executed by a processor to automatically modify the email message to present the explicit answer and the answer provider within the email message, wherein the email message containing the one or more questions is continuously updated at computing devices of the sender and the set of recipients to reflect a current status of the one or more questions, wherein user interfaces of each of the set of recipients is provided at least three options, said at least three options comprising options (i) to indicate ownership of each of the one or more questions, (ii) to answer each of the one or more questions, and (iii) to explicitly indicate non-ownership of each of the one or more questions and wherein the set of recipients are prompted to select one of the at least three options.