Patent ID: 7761525
Filing Date: 2010-07-20
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, at a recipient's computer system, an email message from a sender's computer system, the email message including a time offset value in a metadata area of the email message, the time offset value indicating a number of hours between a first time zone used at the sender's computer system and a base time zone, wherein the metadata area of the email message is a header included in the email message, and wherein the base time zone is Universal Time (UT); computing, based on the received time offset value and a second time zone that is used at the recipient's computer system, a total time offset value; converting one or more time notations included in a body area of the email message to the second time zone by applying the computed total time offset value to the one or more time notations, the converting resulting in one or more converted time notations, wherein the time notations included in the body area of the email message include a first time zone indicator that indicates that the time notations correspond to the first time zone; adding a time zone indicator that indicates the second time zone to each of the converted time notations; and displaying the body area of the email message with the one or more converted time notations and the added time zone indicators on a display device attached to the recipient's computer system.