METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SENDING EMAIL TO MULTIPLE RECIPIENTS WITH RECIPIENT SELECTED SPECIFIC ATTACHMENTS
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1. A method for managing a group of recipients to receive one or more recipient selected specific electronic documents to be attached to an electronic message as individually selected document attachments, said method comprising:
- (a) identifying recipients to receive a respective email message using a computing device having a computer processor;
(b) selecting one of the recipients using the computing device;
(c) displaying, on a display of the computing device, possible documents to be subsequently attached to a respective email to be sent to the selected one of the recipients in direct response to (b) selecting the one of the recipients to receive one or more documents, prior to attaching documents to an email;
(d) selecting one or more documents using the computing device, to be subsequently attached to an email message after the email message is created;
(e) associating the selected document(s) with the selected recipient;
(f) optionally repeating (b)-(e) for each remaining recipients;
(g) creating a single email message;
(h) generating an email by associating the email message with one of the recipients with respective associated selected document(s) only after completing all iterations of (b)-(e);
(i) sending the email to the one recipient wherein the one recipient receives the email message with the document(s) associated with the one recipient; and
(j) repeating (h) and (i) for the remaining recipients, if the remaining recipients are to receive different document(s) than the one recipient.
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Abstract
A method and system is provided for managing groups of individuals to receive an electronic message with recipient specific selected document attachments. The method and system associates one or more documents with individual recipients prior to composing an email message. After an email message is composed, the email message is sent to the selected recipients with respective associated documents for the recipients as previously selected.
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1. A method for managing a group of recipients to receive one or more recipient selected specific electronic documents to be attached to an electronic message as individually selected document attachments, said method comprising:
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(a) identifying recipients to receive a respective email message using a computing device having a computer processor; (b) selecting one of the recipients using the computing device; (c) displaying, on a display of the computing device, possible documents to be subsequently attached to a respective email to be sent to the selected one of the recipients in direct response to (b) selecting the one of the recipients to receive one or more documents, prior to attaching documents to an email; (d) selecting one or more documents using the computing device, to be subsequently attached to an email message after the email message is created; (e) associating the selected document(s) with the selected recipient; (f) optionally repeating (b)-(e) for each remaining recipients; (g) creating a single email message; (h) generating an email by associating the email message with one of the recipients with respective associated selected document(s) only after completing all iterations of (b)-(e); (i) sending the email to the one recipient wherein the one recipient receives the email message with the document(s) associated with the one recipient; and (j) repeating (h) and (i) for the remaining recipients, if the remaining recipients are to receive different document(s) than the one recipient. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A system for managing a group of recipients to receive one or more recipient specific electronic documents attached to an electronic message with recipient specific selected document attachments, said system comprising:
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a computer processor; a user interface having an input device and a display; computer memory; said computer processor executing computer instruction for; (a) identifying recipients to receive the email message using the user interface; (b) selecting one of the recipients using the user interface; (c) displaying, on a display of the user interface, possible documents to be subsequently attached to a respective email to be sent to the selected one of the recipients in response to (b) selecting the one of the recipients to receive one or more documents, prior to attaching documents to an email; (d) selecting one or more documents using the user interface, to be subsequently attached to an email message after the email message is created; (e) associating the selected document(s) with the selected recipient; (f) optionally repeating (b)-(e) for each remaining recipients; (g) creating a single email message only after completing all iterations of (b)-(e); (h) generating an email by associating the email message with one of the recipients with respective associated selected document(s) only after completing all iterations of (b)-(e); (i) sending the email to the one recipient wherein the one recipient receives the email message with the document(s) associated with the one recipient; and (j) repeating (h) and (i) for the remaining recipients, if the remaining recipients are to receive different document(s) than the one recipient. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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