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Method, system, and apparatus for providing self-destructing electronic mail messages

  • US 8,364,764 B2
  • Filed: 04/02/2008
  • Issued: 01/29/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for providing self-destructing electronic mail messages, comprising:

  • receiving a request to send a self-destructing electronic mail message, the request comprising a message body and a time period within which the self-destructing electronic mail message is to be destroyed, the self-destructing electronic mail message including a designation that prevents an electronic mail client of a first recipient of the self-destructing electronic mail message in a home domain of a sender of the self-destructing electronic mail message from performing an operation that results in duplication of contents of the self-destructing electronic mail message, wherein a plurality of operations that is prevented includes forwarding the self-destructing electronic mail message to a second recipient, printing the self-destructing electronic mail message, copying contents of the self-destructing electronic mail message into memory, and pasting the contents of the self-destructing electronic mail message from memory into a new document;

    presenting a security warning when any intended recipient of the self-destructing electronic mail message is located beyond the home domain of the sender;

    transmitting, in response to an indication that the sender selected to proceed with transmitting the self-destructing electronic mail message to a network beyond the home domain of the sender of the self-destructing electronic mail message, the request to an electronic mail client application in the network beyond the home domain; and

    after transmitting the self-destructing electronic mail message and after expiration of the time period, deleting, by an electronic mail server, any instances of the self-destructing electronic mail message that are being stored at the electronic mail server.

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