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Electronic mail distribution via a network of computer controlled display terminals with interactive display interfaces enabling senders/receivers to view sequences of only text from sequences of E-Mail having same headers

  • US 7,266,584 B2
  • Filed: 06/19/2003
  • Issued: 09/04/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In a communication or network with user access via a plurality of data processor controlled interactive display stations and with a system for displaying documents transmitted to receiving display stations from locations remote from said stations, an electronic mail distribution system comprising:

  • means for transmitting electronic mail messages to said receiving display stations;

    means for including a subject identifier in each transmitted message;

    means at said receiving display stations for displaying a list of the subject identifiers or received electronic mail messages;

    means for designating a subject identifier of one received electronic mail as a message text sequencer including;

    means for counting the number of messages having the same subject identifier within a predetermined period, wherein said means for designating automatically designates said same subject identifier when said counted number reaches a predetermined value; and

    means at said receiving display station for enabling the display of a chronological sequence or the text of said received message and the text of all subsequent messages having said designated subject identifier.

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