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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2003
Paul B. Moody, Hyde Park, VT (US);
Daniel M. Gruen, Newton, MA (US);
Steven L. Rohall, Winchester, MA (US);
Bernard J. Kerr, Boston, MA (US);
Seymour Kellerman, Cambridge, MA (US);
Paul B. Moody, Hyde Park, VT (US);
Daniel M. Gruen, Newton, MA (US);
Steven L. Rohall, Winchester, MA (US);
Bernard J. Kerr, Boston, MA (US);
Seymour Kellerman, Cambridge, MA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for automatically using address information from a selected message to create a new message that is unrelated to the selected message in response to a user action, such as selecting one of a plurality of improved reply options. These improved reply options may include a 'New Message To' command and a 'New Message To All' command that do not establish a relationship between the reply message and the selected message that could be exploited by, for example, a threading service. In particular, these commands populate address fields of the new message with values from address fields of the selected message without populating any other fields that are used to identify relationships among messages.