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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. 25, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2003
Applicant:
Keith W. Heilmann, Pleasant Valley, NY (US);
Inventor:
Keith W. Heilmann, Pleasant Valley, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Under the present invention, a method, system, and program product for alerting an email user prior to any subsequent distribution of a received blind carbon-copied (BCC) email message is provided. The method includes: determining if the user attempts to further distribute the received BCC email message; and alerting the user that the user is attempting to further distribute the received BCC email message.