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Patent No.:

US 6823368 B1

Date of Patent:

Nov. 23, 2004

Filed:

Sep. 28, 2000

Method and system for e-mail sender chain history by adding a sender-chain filed to the e-mail header when forwarding a chain forwarded e-mail message to another recipient

Applicant:

Inventors:

Lorin Evan Ullmann, Austin, TX (US);

Joseph Kubik, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:

Primary Examiner:

Hosain Alam

Assistant Examiner:

Oanh Duong

Int. Cl.

CPC ...

G06F 1/516 ;

U.S. Cl.

CPC ...

G06F 1/516 ;

Abstract

An enhanced e-mail reader and composer having automatic addressing functions to extract addresses and information regarding previous recipients of chain-forwarded electronic messages and e-mail, and having automatic addressing of new electronic messages in reply to all or some of those previous recipients. The enhanced e-mail reader is also capable of automatically adding these previous recipients to an electronic address book. An enhanced e-mail composer provides an enhanced electronic message header which indicates a chain of addresses for previous recipients of a chain-forwarded message, and interoperates with the enhanced e-mail reader.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Ullmann, Lorin. (2004). Method and system for e-mail sender chain history by adding a sender-chain filed to the e-mail header when forwarding a chain forwarded e-mail message to another recipient (U.S. Patent No. 6823368). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/6823368

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