Patent ID: 8204943
Filing Date: 2012-06-19
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer program product non-transitorily embodied in a machine-readable storage device and being operable to cause a data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising: receiving, by a message server from a message client, a message for transmission to a plurality of message recipients, the message including: the distribution load being calculated as being equivalent to a size of the message multiplied by a number of recipients on the distribution list; determining, by the message server, that the mass distribution flag of the message has been set to indicate that the message has a distribution load greater than a threshold indicator; and initiating, by the message server in response to determining that the mass distribution flag has been set, delivery of the message to one or more message boxes associated with one or more of the plurality of message recipients of the at least one distribution list in batches, each batch comprising a pre-defined number of the message recipients and being initiated in pre-defined intervals; receiving, at the message boxes, the message; determining, by the message boxes, that the mass distribution flag is set; and suppressing, by the message boxes, auto-reply messages that would have otherwise been sent in response to receiving the message.