Mutual awareness between blind carbon copy recipients of electronic mail messages

• US 20070124392A1
• Filed: 11/30/2005
• Published: 05/31/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Goldberg, Itzhack
• Application Number:
  US11/289,963
• Publication Number:
  US 20070124392A1
• 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 51/48 Message addressing, e.g. address format or anonymous messages, aliases

Abstract

A method for providing mutual awareness between blind carbon copy recipients of electronic mail messages, including identifying a blind carbon copy group (BCCG) of addressees defined for an email message, and sending the email message to the BCCG addressees, where each of the email messages sent includes the addresses of each of the addressees in the BCCG.

Claims

1. A method for providing mutual awareness between blind carbon copy recipients of electronic mail messages, the method comprising:

identifying a blind carbon copy group (BCCG) of addressees defined for an email message; and

sending said email message to said BCCG addressees, wherein each of said email messages sent includes the addresses of each of said addressees in said BCCG.

2. A method according to claim 1 wherein said sending step comprises preserving said BCCG field in said email message sent.

3. A method according to claim 1 wherein said sending step comprises indicating said BCCG addressees within the body of said email message sent.

4. A method according to claim 1 wherein said sending step comprises indicating said BCCG addressees in either of said TO or CC fields of said email message sent.

5. A method according to claim 1 and further comprising:

identifying a second BCCG of addressees defined for said email message; and

sending said email message to said addressees in said second BCCG,

wherein each of said email messages sent to said second BCCG addressees includes the addresses of each of said addressees in said second BCCG,

wherein each of said email messages sent to said first-mentioned BCCG addressees does not include the addresses of each of said addressees in said second BCCG, and

wherein each of said email messages sent to said second BCCG addressees does not include the addresses of each of said addressees in said first-mentioned BCCG.

6. A method according to claim 1 and further comprising:

providing said blind carbon group (BCCG) field for use with said email message.

7. A method according to claim 1 wherein said sending step comprises delivering said email message to said BCCG field addressees, wherein each of said delivered email messages includes the addresses of each of said addressees in said BCCG

8. A method according to claim 7 wherein said delivering step comprises preserving said BCCG field in said delivered email message.

9. A method according to claim 7 wherein said delivering step comprises indicating said BCCG addressees within the body of said delivered email message.

10. A method according to claim 7 wherein said delivering step comprises indicating said BCCG addressees in either of said TO or CC fields of said delivered email message.

11. A method according to claim 7 and further comprising:

providing a second BCCG field for use with said email message; and

delivering said email message to at least one addressee in said second BCCG field,

wherein each of said email messages delivered to said second BCCG addressees includes the addresses of each of said addressees in said second BCCG field,

wherein each of said email messages delivered to said first-mentioned BCCG addressees does not include the addresses of each of said addressees in said second BCCG field, and

wherein each of said email messages delivered to said second BCCG addressees does not include the addresses of each of said addressees in said first-mentioned BCCG field.

12. A system for providing mutual awareness between blind carbon copy recipients of electronic mail messages, the system comprising:

a blind carbon copy group (BCCG) of addressees defined for an email message; and

a computer for sending said email message to said BCCG addressees, wherein each of said email messages sent includes the addresses of each of said addressees in said BCCG.

13. A system according to claim 12 wherein said computer is operative to perform any of a) preserving said BCCG field in said email message sent, b) indicating said BCCG addressees within the body of said email message sent, and c) indicating said BCCG addressees in either of said TO or CC fields of said email message sent.

14. A system according to claim 12 wherein said computer is operative to:

identify a second BCCG of addressees defined for said email message; and

send said email message to said addressees in said second BCCG,

wherein each of said email messages sent to said second BCCG addressees includes the addresses of each of said addressees in said second BCCG,

wherein each of said email messages sent to said first-mentioned BCCG addressees does not include the addresses of each of said addressees in said second BCCG, and

wherein each of said email messages sent to said second BCCG addressees does not include the addresses of each of said addressees in said first-mentioned BCCG.

15. A system according to claim 12 and further comprising a blind carbon group (BCCG) field for use with said email message.

16. A system according to claim 15 wherein said computer is operative to deliver said email message to said BCCG field addressees, wherein each of said delivered email messages includes the addresses of each of said addressees in said BCCG

17. A system according to claim 16 wherein said computer is operative to perform any of a) preserving said BCCG field in said delivered email message, b) indicating said BCCG addressees within the body of said delivered email message, and c) indicating said BCCG addressees in either of said TO or CC fields of said delivered email message.

18. A system according to claim 16 and further comprising a second BCCG field for use with said email message, and wherein said computer is operative to deliver said email message to at least one addressee in said second BCCG field,

wherein each of said email messages delivered to said second BCCG addressees includes the addresses of each of said addressees in said second BCCG field,

wherein each of said email messages delivered to said first-mentioned BCCG addressees does not include the addresses of each of said addressees in said second BCCG field, and

wherein each of said email messages delivered to said second BCCG addressees does not include the addresses of each of said addressees in said first-mentioned BCCG field.

19. A method for providing mutual awareness between blind carbon copy recipients of electronic mail messages, the method comprising:

configuring an email program that is executable by a computer to provide a blind carbon copy group (BCCG) of addressees defined for an email message; and

configuring said email program to deliver said email message to said BCCG addressees, wherein each of said delivered email messages includes the addresses of each of said addressees in said BCCG.

20. A computer-implemented program embodied on a computer-readable medium, the computer-implemented program comprising:

a first code segment operative to identify a blind carbon copy group (BCCG) of addressees defined for an email message; and

a second code segment operative to deliver said email message to said BCCG addressees, wherein each of said delivered email messages includes the addresses of each of said addressees in said BCCG.