System and method for electronic message notification

• US 20070011202A1
• Filed: 05/24/2006
• Published: 01/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/1999
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: G&H Nevada-Tek
• Inventors: Gough, James, Hickman, Paul
• Granted Patent: US 8,271,505 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

A method, article of manufacture and system for electronic mail notification including determining that it is a time for at least one of a reminder notification action and a report notification action. For a reminder notification action, all action items within a given range are obtained and the action items are processed into at least one action item report which is e-mailed to at least one designated recipient. For a report notification action, the a list of completed action items in a given range are obtained and the list of completed action items is processed into at least one completed action report that is e-mailed to at least one designated recipient.

Claims

1. A method for electronic mail notification of a docket item comprising:

determining that it is a time for a reminder notification action; and

obtaining at least one action item from a docketing database and e-mailing the at least one action item via the Internet to at least one designated recipient.

14. A method for electronic mail docket reporting comprising:

determining that it is a time for a report notification;

obtaining a list of completed action items in a given range and processing the list of completed action items into at least one completed action report; and

e-mailing the at least one completed action report over the Internet to at least one designated recipient.