International Business Machines Corporation

David Lebowitz

Gregory Peter Fitzpatrick

James J Toohey

Rick A Hamilton, Ii

Carl Phillip Gusler

Mathews Thomas

Jeffery R Washburn

A method of message delivery can include registering a plurality of reception states for a receiving party. The reception states can specify conditions for establishing communications links with receiving party addresses. A receiving party address can be identified from a first initiated communications link between the sending party and the receiving party. Reception state data specified by the plurality of reception states can be determined according to the receiving party address and can be presented to the sending party.

Method and apparatus for negotiated message delivery

An e-mail categorization system can include a plurality of role templates, each role template being associated with an e-mail account and defining a plurality of categories for categorizing e-mail messages. An authorized account holder can establish the plurality of categories and can designate programmatic actions that are to be selectively executed by an e-mail receiving application upon the receipt of e-mail messages. The selection of actions can be based upon categories of the received e-mail messages. Role templates can be distributed to e-mail originators so that when e-mail originators direct e-mail messages to an account associated with a role template, the originators are prompted to select one of the categories defined by a corresponding role template.

E-mail role templates for classifying e-mail

A method () of categorizing and prioritizing a phone call for a recipient's phone number can include the steps of defining () a set of rules for a predetermined caller or a group of predetermined callers and assigning () a code to the set of rules. The method can further include the steps of receiving () a call containing the code appended by a caller to the recipient's phone number and routing (or) the call in accordance with the set of rules.

Method for categorization and prioritization of phone callers

A common contact identification system. The common contact identification system can include at least two contact lists, a comparator for comparing contacts in each of the contact lists, and a common contact list including contacts matched by said comparator. Each contact list can include a plurality of contacts. Each contact list further can have a publicly accessible interface through which the contacts can be accessed remotely. As such, the comparator can identify matching contacts in each of the contact lists.

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