USER-CONFIGURED ALTERNATE EMAIL RENDERING

• US 20100299394A1
• Filed: 05/20/2009
• Published: 11/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AirBNB Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Jania, Frank L., Schirmer, Andrew L.
• Granted Patent: US 10,558,949 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 51/214 using selective forwarding

Abstract

A method of rendering email includes receiving with a networked computing device at least one filter criterion; receiving with the networked computing device an email message; and, responsive to a determination by the networked computing device that the email message meets the at least one filter criterion, diverting the email message from delivery to an inbox and providing an immediate display of the email message in its entirety to a user.

Claims

1. A method of rendering email, comprising:

receiving with a networked computing device at least one filter criterion;

receiving with said networked computing device an email message; and

responsive to a determination by said networked computing device that said email message meets said at least one filter criterion, diverting said email message from delivery to an inbox and providing an immediate display of said email message in its entirety to a user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said at least one filter criterion is configured by a user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said at least one filter criterion comprises at least one of:

a minimum length of said email message, a maximum length of said email message, a level of urgency associated with said email message, an identity of at least one sender of said email message, an identity of at least one recipient of said email message, and a presence of one or more words in a specified field of said email message.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said immediate display comprises a popup window on a visual display device of said computing device.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing a display of a plurality of unread email messages that meet said at least one filter criterion to said user in a single display window.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing said user through said immediate display of said email message with an option to replying to said email message.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising transmitting a reply to an email server in communication with said networked computing device.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein said email message comprises an interactive calendar event invitation and said reply comprises an indication of whether said user accepts said invitation.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising allowing said user, through said immediate display, to send said email message to said inbox.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising responsive to a determination that said email message does not meet said at least one filter criterion, automatically sending said email message to said inbox.

11. A computing device configured to implement an email client;

wherein said computing device is configured to divert an email message received from an email server over a network from delivery to an inbox and immediately display said email message to a user responsive to said computing device determining that said email message meets at least one criterion for alternate email rendering.

12. The computing device of claim 11, wherein said at least one filter criterion comprises at least one of:

a minimum length of said email message, a maximum length of said email message, a level of urgency associated with said email message, an identity of at least one sender of said email message, an identity of at least one recipient of said email message, and a presence of one or more words in a specified field of said email message.

13. The computing device of claim 11, wherein said immediate display comprises a popup window on a visual display device of said computing device.

14. The computing device of claim 11, wherein said immediate display comprises a plurality of unread email messages that meet said at least one filter criterion to said user in a single display window on said visual display device.

15. The computing device of claim 11, wherein said immediate display comprises an option for said user to reply to said email message.

16. The computing device of claim 15, wherein said email message comprises an interactive calendar event invitation and said reply comprises an indication of whether said user accepts said invitation.

17. The computing device of claim 11, wherein said immediate display comprises an option for said user to send said email message to said inbox.

18. The computing device of claim 11, wherein said computing device is further configured to, responsive to a determination that said email message does not meet said at least one filter criterion, automatically send said email message to said inbox.

20. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein said at least one filter criterion comprises at least one of:

a minimum length of said email message, a maximum length of said email message, a level of urgency associated with said email message, an identity of at least one sender of said email message, an identity of at least one recipient of said email message, and a presence of one or more words in a specified field of said email message.

19. A computer program product for email rendering, the computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising;

computer readable program code configured to receive at least one filter criterion;

computer readable program code configured to receive an email message; and

computer readable program code configured to divert said email message from delivery to an inbox and immediately display said email message in its entirety to a user responsive to a determination that said email message meets said at least one user-selected filter criterion.