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Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020

Filed:

May. 18, 2016
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Florian Pinel, New York, NY (US);

Edward E. Seabolt, Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/08 (2013.01); G06F 17/274 (2013.01); G06F 17/2785 (2013.01); H04L 51/063 (2013.01);
Abstract

A mechanism is provided for validating an attachment to an electronic communication being composed based on the recipients of the electronic communication. An associated tone or theme of the at least one attachment to the electronic communication being composed by a sender and an identity of each of one or more recipients to whom the electronic communication is to be sent and the sender are identified. One or more previous electronic communications sent to or received from one or more of the one or more recipients and at least one tone of each of the one or more previous electronic communications are identified in order to generate one or more preferred tones. Responsive to identifying a tone discrepancy between the tone or theme of the at least one attachment and the one or more preferred tones, a notification is presented to the sender.


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