Patent ID: 8364764
Filing Date: 2013-01-29
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for providing self-destructing electronic mail messages, comprising: receiving a request to send a self-destructing electronic mail message, the request comprising a message body and a time period within which the self-destructing electronic mail message is to be destroyed, the self-destructing electronic mail message including a designation that prevents an electronic mail client of a first recipient of the self-destructing electronic mail message in a home domain of a sender of the self-destructing electronic mail message from performing an operation that results in duplication of contents of the self-destructing electronic mail message, wherein a plurality of operations that is prevented includes forwarding the self-destructing electronic mail message to a second recipient, printing the self-destructing electronic mail message, copying contents of the self-destructing electronic mail message into memory, and pasting the contents of the self-destructing electronic mail message from memory into a new document; presenting a security warning when any intended recipient of the self-destructing electronic mail message is located beyond the home domain of the sender; transmitting, in response to an indication that the sender selected to proceed with transmitting the self-destructing electronic mail message to a network beyond the home domain of the sender of the self-destructing electronic mail message, the request to an electronic mail client application in the network beyond the home domain; and after transmitting the self-destructing electronic mail message and after expiration of the time period, deleting, by an electronic mail server, any instances of the self-destructing electronic mail message that are being stored at the electronic mail server.