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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2005
Michael Kubala, Austin, TX (US);
David Kulczar, Austin, TX (US);
Leonel Saenz, Iii, Austin, TX (US);
Thanh K. Tran, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Michael Kubala, Austin, TX (US);
David Kulczar, Austin, TX (US);
Leonel Saenz, III, Austin, TX (US);
Thanh K. Tran, Pflugerville, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system, apparatus, or computer program product is presented for processing electronic messages. An electronic message is received for a recipient from a sender, and a data field is detected in the received electronic message that indicates a request by the sender for a response from the recipient for the received electronic message. The recipient is alerted to the detected request for the response for the received electronic message, and after alerting the recipient, actions are required by the recipient with respect to usage of a data processing system until the recipient uses the data processing system to send a response for the received electronic message to the sender. For example, the recipient can be prevented from closing a review of the received e-mail message, from deleting the received e-mail message, and from exiting the e-mail application until the recipient has responded to the received email message.