Patent ID: 7882182

Claim:
A method for electronically correcting information in electronic mail, the method comprising: receiving an electronic mail at a computer of a recipient of the electronic mail, wherein the electronic mail was sent to the recipient by a sender; receiving a selection of an option from a plurality of different options from the recipient of the electronic mail, wherein the option selected enables correction of information in the electronic; responsive to receiving the selection of the option from the plurality of different options, formatting a copy of the electronic mail to compose a correction; correcting information in the copy of the electronic mail, wherein the information corrected comprises added information and deleted information; generating a correction note by the computer of the recipient, wherein the correction note stores only the information corrected in the copy of the electronic mail, and wherein the correction note is associated with the electronic mail; sending the correction note to an electronic mail server; and responsive to receiving a selection of an option to notify an other recipient of the electronic mail and the sender of the electronic mail about the correction note, notifying by displaying an annotation to indicate when the correction of information in the copy of the electronic mail occurred.