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Patent No.:

US 7734709 B1

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Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2010

Filed:

Sep. 14, 2005
Applicants:

Brian D. Goodman, New Haven, CT (US);

Konrad C. Lagarde, Milford, CT (US);

Eben P. Stewart, Hamden, CT (US);

Michael Van Der Meulen, Woodbridge, CT (US);

Jessica Wu, Danbury, CT (US);

Inventors:

Brian D. Goodman, New Haven, CT (US);

Konrad C. Lagarde, Milford, CT (US);

Eben P. Stewart, Hamden, CT (US);

Michael Van Der Meulen, Woodbridge, CT (US);

Jessica Wu, Danbury, CT (US);

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Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Electronic message response reception at a client computer in a conversation are throttled according to a predetermined critera in order to reduce the volume of messages the client is presented. Critera for throttling messages comprises only presenting messages in a predetermined time window, presenting only a predetermined number of response messages, presenting messages based on previous responder activity and presenting only messages from predefined senders.


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