Patent ID: 9547842
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A method for transmitting availability information in an electronic mail system, said method comprising: receiving, by a first processor of a first system from a user of the first system on a date prior to a start date, a notification that the user is unavailable from the start date to an end date; in response to said receiving the notification, said first processor activating an availability indicator in the first system, wherein the availability indicator indicates that the user is unavailable from the start date to the end date; said first processor extracting availability indicator metadata from the availability indicator, wherein the availability indicator metadata comprises the start date, the end date and an availability indicator message pertaining to the user being unavailable from the start date to the end date; said first processor determining that an e-mail has not been sent from the first system to a receiver in a second system linked to the first system since said activating; said processor ascertaining whether a current date is prior to the start date and determining, from said ascertaining, that the current date is prior to the start date; in response to said determining that the current date is prior to the start date and to said determining that the e-mail has not been sent from the first system to the receiver in the second system, said first processor attaching the extracted availability indicator metadata to the e-mail; and said first processor sending the e-mail with the attached availability indicator metadata to the receiver in the second system.