System and method of automatically determining whether or not to include message text of an original electronic message in a reply electronic message

• US 20060259554A1
• Filed: 05/13/2005
• Published: 11/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Research In Motion Limited (Blackberry Limited)
• Inventors: Willey, William Daniel
• Granted Patent: US 8,843,564 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/14 Charging , metering or billing arrangements for data wireline or wireless communications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/37 E-mail addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/30 Managing network names, e.g. use of aliases or nicknames name-to-address mapping H04L61/45

Abstract

A system and method for automatically determining whether or not original message text should be included in a reply electronic message is provided. In one broad aspect, the original message text is included in the reply electronic message as a function of the original message. In a first example, the original message text is included as a function of a domain name of an originating address. In a second example, the original message text is included as a function of maintained information used for determining if original message text should be included in reply electronic messages. In a third example, the original message text is included as a function of an indicative encoding inside the original electronic message. In a fourth example, the original message text is included as a function of maintained information used for detecting address aliases. In another broad aspect, the original electronic message is encoded with an indicative encoding as to whether or not a reply electronic message should include the original message text.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving an original electronic message, the original electronic message comprising original message text;

automatically determining if a reply electronic message is to contain at least the original message text based on at least the original electronic message; and

sending the reply electronic message.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the original electronic message further comprises an originating address, the originating address comprising a domain name; and

automatically determining if the reply electronic message is to contain at least the original message text is based on at least the domain name.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

performing a domain name check to determine if users of the domain name are charged according to electronic message size; and

automatically determining not to contain the original message text in the reply electronic message if users of the domain name are charged according to electronic message size.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the domain name check comprises a comparison of the domain name with an identification of domains of service providers that charge users according to message size.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

maintaining information useful for automatically determining if the reply electronic message is to contain at least the original message text;

wherein automatically determining if the reply electronic message is to contain at least the original message text is based on at least the maintained information.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein:

the original electronic message comprises an indicative encoding; and

automatically determining if the reply electronic message is to contain at least the original message text is based on at least the indicative encoding.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

accepting user input;

wherein automatically determining if the reply electronic message is to contain at least the original message text is based on at least the original electronic message and user input.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

maintaining information useful for automatically determining if the reply electronic message is to contain at least the original message text; and

upon a user override, updating the maintained information according to the user override.

9. An electronic message-enabled device adapted to implement the method of claim 1.

10. A computer readable medium having computer executable instructions stored thereon for execution on an electronic message-enabled device so as to implement the method of claim 1.

11. An email-enabled wireless device comprising a wireless access radio, the email-enabled wireless device being adapted to implement the method of claim 1.

12. A computer readable medium having computer executable instructions stored thereon for execution on an email-enabled wireless device so as to implement the method of claim 1.

13. A method in an electronic message infrastructure comprising:

receiving an original electronic message, the original electronic message comprising original message text;

encoding into the original electronic message an indicative encoding of whether or not a reply electronic message is to contain at least the original message text; and

delivering the original electronic message.

14. The method of claim 13 further comprising:

performing a domain name check to determine if a recipient of the reply electronic message is charged according to electronic message size;

wherein the indicative encoding is a function of results of the domain name check.

15. An electronic message infrastructure adapted to implement the method of claim 13.

16. An intermediate processing function adapted to implement the method of claim 13.

17. A computer readable medium having computer executable instructions stored thereon for execution on an electronic message infrastructure so as to implement the method of claim 13.

18. A method in an originating electronic message-enabled device comprising:

encoding into an original electronic message an indicative encoding, the original electronic message comprising original message text, the indicative encoding indicating whether or not a reply electronic message is to contain at least the original message text.

19. The method of claim 18 further comprising:

accepting user input as to whether or not a reply electronic message is to contain at least the original message text;

wherein the indicative encoding comprises the user input.

20. An originating electronic message-enabled device adapted to implement the method of claim 18.

21. A computer readable medium having computer executable instructions stored thereon for execution on an originating electronic message-enabled device so as to implement the method of claim 18.