Patent ID: 9147181
Filing Date: 2015-09-29
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for providing to a user creating an electronic message one or more informational messages related to the content and addressees of the electronic message, the method comprising the steps of: a computer system identifying an electronic message that has not yet been transmitted for delivery to any addressee; the computer system identifying one or more addressees of the electronic message; the computer system identifying any informational messages associated with each of the identified one or more addressees, wherein the informational messages are predefined by the one or more addressees and stored in a centralized database, and the informational messages comprise at least one of hyperlinks, command buttons, or programmable elements for execution by a user to replace, prior to the computer system transmitting the electronic message for delivery to any addressee, an addressee of the electronic message with an alternative addressee or replace all occurrences of an addressee's name in the electronic message with a name of an alternative addressee; and the computer system displaying the identified informational messages prior to the computer system transmitting the electronic message for delivery to any addressee; wherein the informational messages comprise at least one of hyperlinks, command buttons, or programmable elements for execution by a user to replace, prior to the computer system transmitting the electronic message for delivery to any addressee, an addressee of the electronic message with an alternative addressee or replace all occurrences of an addressee's name in the electronic message with a name of an alternative addressee.