Patent ID: 8898234
Filing Date: 2014-11-25
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: establishing one or more questions within an email message from a sender to a set of recipients; assigning a unique question identifier to each of the one or more questions within metadata of the email message; indicating a question owner for each of the one or more questions within metadata of the email message; conveying the email message to the set of recipients; receiving an explicit answer to at least a portion of the one or more questions from an answer provider, wherein the answer provider is one of the recipients; associating the explicit answer with the corresponding one of the questions within metadata of the email message; indicating the answer provider within metadata of the email message; and automatically modifying the email message to present the explicit answer and the answer provider within the email message, wherein the email message containing the one or more questions is continuously updated at computing devices of the sender and the set of recipients to reflect a current status of the one or more questions, wherein user interfaces of each of the set of recipients is provided at least three options, said at least three options comprising options (i) to indicate ownership of each of the one or more questions, (ii) to answer each of the one or more questions, and (iii) to explicitly indicate non-ownership of each of the one or more questions and wherein the set of recipients are prompted to select one of the at least three options.