Patent ID: 7720923
Filing Date: 2010-05-18
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for notifying the recipient of an electronic mail message of a local action required in response to the contents of the electronic mail message, said method comprising: a processor of a data processing system at a recipient location of the recipient receiving the electronic mail message that had been sent by a message origination location of a sender; said processor determining at the recipient location that there is a local action required by the recipient in response to the contents of the message; said processor ascertaining at the recipient location whether the recipient has performed the local action in response to the contents of the message within a specified period of time; said processor generating a message at the recipient location to remind the recipient to perform the local action in response to the contents of the received message, when said ascertaining ascertains that the recipient has not performed the local action in response to the contents of the received message within the specified period of time; and said processor transmitting an action completion message from the recipient location to the sender to notify the sender that the local action has been performed by the recipient.