Updating an E-mail recipient list

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9106597-B2
Application number	US-201313796055-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 12, 2013
Priority date	Mar 12, 2013
Publication date	Aug 11, 2015
Grant date	Aug 11, 2015

Abstract

Arrangements describe herein relate to updating an e-mail recipient list. A first version of an e-mail can be received, the first version comprising a message header identifying at least a first e-mail recipient. The first version of the e-mail can be sent to the first e-mail recipient indicated in the message header. A second version of the e-mail can be received, the second version of the e-mail indicating at least a second e-mail recipient. The second version can be sent to the at least second e-mail recipient indicated in the message header of the second version. An update request for the first version can be received, the update request configured to be processed to update the message header of the first version to add the at least second e-mail recipient to the message header. The update request can be sent to the at least first e-mail recipient.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
a hardware processor programmed to initiate executable operations comprising:
receiving, via an e-mail client, a first version of an e-mail, the first version of the e-mail comprising a message header identifying at least a first e-mail recipient;
storing the first version of the e-mail for a user associated with the e-mail client;
sending the first version of the e-mail to the at least first e-mail recipient indicated in the messa…

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Flamini Elisabetta

Classifications

• H04L51/224 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L61/15

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L41/026

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L51/04 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L51/48

  Electricity · mapped topic