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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 08, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/22 (2013.01); H04L 51/24 (2013.01); H04L 51/34 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system for marking an email as partially read includes at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to determine the types of content contained in an email within a user's inbox. The at least one processor may be further configured to monitor the portions of each of the types of content of the email to determine which portions from each of the types of content that are viewed by the user. Furthermore, the at least one processor may be configured to determine a percentage of the content that has been viewed by the user. Finally, the at least one processor may be configured to then display the percentage of the content that has been viewed by the user.


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