Actionable email documents
First Claim
1. One or more processor-accessible media comprising processor-executable instructions that include an actionable email documents module, the actionable email documents module capable of interacting with metadata and an email program to create an email document;
- wherein the actionable email documents module is adapted to include a data collection form as part of the email document, the data collection form comprising a block for data population that is associated with a field identifier, the field identifier corresponding to a field of the metadata.
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Abstract
A received reply email document enables some action to be effectuated using data included in the email document responsive to field identifiers associated with the data and corresponding to fields of metadata. The associated field identifiers that correspond to known fields of the metadata provide some expectation as to the semantic meaning and/or syntactic constraints of the data to which the field identifiers are associated. In a described implementation, an actionable email documents module creates an email document having blocks that are mapped to fields of metadata. The email document is transmitted to one or more recipients. Each recipient adds data to the blocks so that the data becomes mapped to the fields of the metadata. The recipients return a reply email document having the field-mapped data. Upon receipt, the module can effectuate some action using the field-mapped data responsive to the mappings.
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39 Claims
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1. One or more processor-accessible media comprising processor-executable instructions that include an actionable email documents module, the actionable email documents module capable of interacting with metadata and an email program to create an email document;
- wherein the actionable email documents module is adapted to include a data collection form as part of the email document, the data collection form comprising a block for data population that is associated with a field identifier, the field identifier corresponding to a field of the metadata.
- View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A device comprising:
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at least one processor; and
one or more media including processor-executable instructions that are capable of being executed by the at least one processor, the processor-executable instructions adapted to direct the device to perform actions comprising;
establishing a mapping between metadata and blocks of an email document;
transmitting the email document via an email mechanism;
receiving via the email mechanism a reply email document with data populating the blocks; and
effectuating an action with the data populating the blocks of the reply email document using the mapping. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. An arrangement for actionable email documents, the arrangement comprising:
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creation means for creating an email document that includes blocks that are mapped to metadata; and
effectuation means for effectuating an action using data, which is returned in the blocks of a reply email document, responsive to the mapping to the metadata. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A method comprising:
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adding blocks that are capable of accepting data to an email document;
including field identifiers in association with the blocks in the email document, respective ones of the field identifiers corresponding to respective ones of fields of metadata; and
effectuating an action using data populating the blocks in a received reply email document. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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