Patent ID: 7222156
Filing Date: 2007-05-22
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. An email application for integrating communications of both collaborative and non-collaborative email messages, wherein a collaborative email message is an email message communicated among a plurality of recipients that dynamically incorporates information provided by the recipients into the message content, comprising: an email inbox display for identifying incoming email messages, wherein the email inbox display provides an indication for distinguishing collaborative email messages from non-collaborative email messages; and a message display, comprising a message content area for displaying an email message selected to be opened from the email inbox display, wherein, when the selected email message is a collaborative email message, the message display further comprises an interface enabling a recipient to modify the message content of the collaborative message, the modified message then being sent to all recipients of the collaborative email message; wherein the email inbox display provides an indication whenever contents of a collaborative email message have been modified by another recipient since the collaborative email was last opened.