Patent ID: 8171086

Claim:
A method for recognizing individual achievements in an enterprise via e-mail, the method comprising: receiving at an e-mail server for the enterprise an e-mail from a sender who is a member of the enterprise and has previously been recognized by the enterprise with at least one award; generating an award link to a dynamically generated web page listing award information for the sender; generating a graphical icon or an icon link for a graphical icon representing at least one award received by the sender; inserting the award link, and the graphical icon or icon link, into the e-mail and relaying the e-mail to a recipient if the recipient is a member of an enterprise; and responsive to a determination that the recipient is not a member of the enterprise, relaying the e-mail to the recipient without inserting either the icon link or the graphical icon, and without inserting an award link, into the e-mail.