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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2010

Filed:

Mar. 06, 2003
Applicants:

Andrew Mason, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

William J. Beyda, Cupertino, CA (US);

Rami Caspi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Andrew Mason, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

William J. Beyda, Cupertino, CA (US);

Rami Caspi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

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

A telecommunications system includes a plurality of electronic messaging clients (); at least one messaging server () having an e-mail presence activation module () adapted to receive an e-mail and determine therefrom whether a presence of a recipient is to be determined, and a presence module () responsive to controls from the e-mail presence activation module and adapted to determine a presence of a recipient of said e-mail prior to sending the e-mail to the recipient. In one embodiment, the e-mail presence activation module () is adapted to read a priority level of the e-mail message to determine whether to check a presence of the recipient.


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