Patent ID: 8561163
Filing Date: 2013-10-15
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of maintaining the integrity of email authorship, the method comprising: receiving, by a receiving email client, an email message containing content created by a sender; identifying, by the receiving email client in dependence upon the email message, an edit authority value established by the sender of the email message for that content; receiving, by the receiving email client from a recipient of the email message, an instruction to forward the received email message; receiving, by the receiving email client from the recipient, an instruction to edit the content created by the sender contained in the received email message; determining, by the receiving email client in dependence upon the edit authority value, whether to allow the recipient to edit the content; if the recipient is not allowed to edit the content, forwarding, by the receiving email client, the email message without altering the content created by a sender; if the recipient is allowed to edit the content, determining, by the receiving email client in dependence upon the edit authority value, whether to enforce edit tracking in the content; and