Patent ID: 11888802
Assignee: nan
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
one or more computer processors; and
one or more non-transitory computer readable media operatively connected to the one or more computer processors and having stored thereon computer instructions for carrying out the steps of:
(a) receiving, at an email server of an email system, an email addressed to a first user of the email system, the email server comprising one or more computers;
(b) accessing, by the email server, one or more electronic databases stored on one or more computer-readable storage media operatively connected to the email server, the databases comprising information related to one or more respective registered users of the email system, the information comprising:
(i) profile information including identification information for the respective registered users;
(ii) whitelist information indicating one or more individuals and/or email addresses approved to send email to the respective registered users;
(iii) email message data including email messages accessible to the respective registered users through an email interface;
(iv) queue information including queued email messages assigned queue positions and not being accessible to the respective registered users through an email interface;
(v) password information including whitelist password codes and queue advancement password codes for the respective registered users;

(c) determining, by the email server, whether the received email is approved to be sent to the first user based at least in part on the whitelist information;
(d) based at least in part on a determination in step (c), that the received email is not approved, storing the received email as a queued email message, and assigning a queue position to the received email; and
(e) providing, by the email server, to a device associated with a sender of the received email, an interface that is configured for input of consideration in exchange for advancement of the received email queue position.