Methods for creating and using electronic mailing groups

US7953805B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Deepak Gupta · Delhi, IN
• Namita Gupta · Seattle, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 20, 2007
• Grant date: May 31, 2011
• Expiry date: Dec 5, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/107
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method for creating an electronic mailing group. The method is implemented via execution of computer readable program code on a processor of a computer system. A first input is stored in a computer-readable storage medium. The first input includes a first group name for distributing a first electronic mail message. The first group name is associated with a plurality of electronic mail addresses, based on a first set of received instructions. The first group name represents the addresses. After associating, information associated with the first group name is stored in the storage medium. The information is associated with each address of the addresses and designates each address of the addresses as a first recipient type selected from: To recipient, Carbon Copy recipient, and Blind Carbon Copy recipient. At least one address of the addresses is designated as a Carbon Copy recipient or a Blind Carbon Copy recipient.