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Method and system for selectively requesting an acknowledgement to recipients of an electronic mail

  • US 8,015,251 B2
  • Filed: 10/24/2006
  • Issued: 09/06/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2005
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method in a client side of a mail management application stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, for selectively requesting a read mail acknowledgment to at least one recipient of a mail among a plurality of recipients, said method comprising the steps of:

  • creating a mail on a computing machine using said client side of said mail management application, said mail comprising a body and a list with all recipients of said mail;

    receiving a user'"'"'s command to send said mail;

    receiving at least one of user'"'"'s commands for selecting among said list of all recipients, predetermined recipients for whom a read mail acknowledgement is requested and predetermined recipients for whom no read mail acknowledgement is requested;

    building a list with said mail management application, after receiving said user'"'"'s command to send said mail, of said predetermined recipients for whom a read mail acknowledgement is requested;

    building a list with said mail management application, after receiving said user'"'"'s command to send said mail, of said predetermined recipients for whom no read mail acknowledgement is requested; and

    determining whether said lists of said predetermined recipients for whom a read mail acknowledgement is requested and said predetermined recipients for whom no read mail acknowledgement is requested each contain at least one recipient, and if so, then;

    duplicating the mail;

    associating with a first duplicate of the duplicated mail an indicator for requesting a read mail acknowledgement and sending said first duplicate to the one or plurality of recipients for whom a read mail acknowledgement is requested; and

    sending a second duplicate of the duplicated mail to the one or plurality of recipients for whom no read mail acknowledgement is requested.

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