Patent ID: 7734696
Filing Date: 2010-06-08
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of email messaging using mailing lists comprising the steps of: receiving from an org-chart database an org-chart defining an organizational hierarchy relating to an organization, including information defining a structure of the hierarchy and information defining sub-organizations and individuals within the organization; extracting from the received information at least identifiers of members of the organizational hierarchy, information defining individual and sub-organization reporting relationships of the members in the organizational hierarchy, and information relating to email addresses of the members; automatically generating a plurality of mailing lists based on the extracted information; storing the plurality of automatically generated mailing lists by storing a plurality of tables in a database system; directly modifying one or more of the plurality of automatically generated mailing lists as stored in the plurality of tables; generating at least one access list defining permissions for at least some of the plurality of mailing lists; receiving an email message including an identifier of one of the plurality of mailing lists; determining that a sender of the email message has permission to send email messages to the identified mailing list using an access list; accessing the identified mailing list to obtain at least one email address of at least one member of the mailing list; and sending the email message to the obtained at least one email address.