Patent ID: 8589493
Filing Date: 2013-11-19
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implementable method for managing electronic mail (email) messages comprising: enabling origination of a first email message using a computer system of an email message originator, the first email message comprising a unique recipient request identifier and a recipient request prompt assigned thereto; linking a recipient request list to the first email message using the unique recipient request identifier; sending the first email message from the computer system of the email message originator to a first recipient; enabling the first recipient to forward the first email message to a second recipient as a forwarded email message, the forwarded email message comprising the unique recipient request identifier and the recipient request prompt assigned thereto; receiving the forwarded email message by the second recipient; enabling the second recipient to generate a recipient request using the recipient request prompt in the forwarded email message; appending, to the recipient request, the recipient request identifier and an email address of the second recipient; sending the recipient request to the email message originator, at an address determined based on the unique recipient request identifier; responsive to receiving the recipient request at the address of the email message originator, parsing therefrom the recipient request identifier and the email address of the second recipient and appending the email address of the second recipient to the recipient request list; and using the recipient request list to send a second email message, as a response to the received recipient request, from the email message originator directly to the email address of the second recipient, bypassing the first recipient.