Patent ID: 8738637

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, at a computing device, an e-mail; determining, via the computing device, if a signature associated with the e-mail has been generated; if it is determined that no signature associated with the e-mail has been generated, the computing device: causing a mechanism for sharing the e-mail to be made available to a user; and generating a signature by calculating the e-mail's signature from content of the e-mail for association with the e-mail; identifying a match of the associated generated signature with a record of the generated signature upon the determination that the associated signature has been generated; maintaining a vote count for the received e-mail, the e-mail's vote count determined using voting input received via a mechanism made available upon a determination that a signature associated with the e-mail has been generated; and increasing, via the computing device, a popularity measure associated with the e-mail upon the identified generated signature being determined to match the record of the generated signature, wherein the popularity measure and vote count are used for generating a popularity data item of e-mail data, the e-mail data facilitating display and sharing of the e-mail and comprising at least one data item being based on user input indicative of user interest in the e-mail.