Patent ID: 8024411
Filing Date: 2011-09-20
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for message security classification in a web e-mail access client comprising: creating a message form within a web client window; launching a classification toolbar within the message form, the classification toolbar providing at least a security classification option input and secondary classification option input; populating security classification options in the classification toolbar based upon pre-defined classification criteria, the security classification options identifying three or more security levels available for selection by a user; receiving a security classification selection input identifying one of the three or more security levels populated in the classification toolbar, selected by the user, the security classification selection input associated with a portion of identified text with in a text body of the message form; populating secondary classification options in the classification toolbar based upon the security classification selection input from the pre-defined classification criteria; receiving a secondary classification selection input from the secondary classification options selected by the user from the toolbar; determining whether the security classification selection input and the secondary classification selection input are valid based upon administrator defined classification policy; and assigning x-header properties to the message metadata associated with the identified text in the text body of the message form, the x-header properties are based upon the security classification selection input and secondary classification selection input when security classification selection input and secondary classification selection input are valid.