Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm T. Rao Cora
  • Patent number: 6775689
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method, apparatus and program product for restructuring email messages for transmission to a plurality of recipients by providing transmission control directives and email content segment identifiers supplied by the user, parsing the said directives and email contents, expanding aliases wherever necessary and applying the said directives to restructure the email contents by sending selected segments to selected recipients in identified lists. This invention further includes reordering the selected segments in a defined sequence prior to transmission. This invention also includes merging of selected identified corresponding segments from a plurality of email messages and transmitted to selected recipients in identified recipient lists. The selected merged segments may further be reordered in a defined sequence prior to transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Hulikunta Prahlad Raghunandan