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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1993
William J Johnson, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Robert P Welch, Colleyville, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In a data processing system that allows the creation and transmission of distributions from a first user to a second user on the data processing system, the present invention automatically provides for the distribution an acknowledgement option based upon the contents of the distribution. The acknowledgement option causes an acknowledgement message to be sent back to the sender upon a specified event, such as the recipient receiving or acting on the distribution. After the first user has created the distribution and commanded the data processing system to send the distribution, the distribution is automatically searched for a predetermined content. If the predetermined content is found in the distribution, then a predetermined acknowledgement option is associated with the distribution. The distribution, along with the acknowledgement option, is then sent to the second user. If the predetermined content is not found, then the distribution is sent to the second user without the acknowledgement option.
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