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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2014
Google Technology Holdings Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Amit Kumar Agrawal, Bangalore, IN;
Lawrence A Willis, McHenry, IL (US);
Jayashree M Yabannavar, Bangalore, IN;
Google Technology Holdings LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A apparatus and method for managing blind-carbon-copy replies in e-mail communications includes an electronic computing device configured to detectthat an e-mail account that is a blind-carbon-copy recipient of a received e-mail of an e-mail thread is sending a reply e-mail to at least one participant of a set of participants of the e-mail thread. The electronic computing device is also configured to determine, from the set of participants of the e-mail thread, an e-mail account adder that added the e-mail account to the e-mail thread as the blind-carbon-copy recipient. The electronic computing device is further configured to addtext to the reply e-mail indicating the e-mail account adder forwarded the received e-mail to the e-mail account or to sendan auto-generated e-mail notification to the at least one participant of the e-mail thread indicating the e-mail account adder added the e-mail account to the e-mail thread as a participant.