Patent ID: 8392514

Claim:
A method of providing transmission, over an Internet, of a primary electronic message to one or more primary recipients and a first edited message to one or more secondary recipients, comprising: utilizing a user interface with a known electronic messaging system application; composing the primary electronic message, using the known electronic messaging system application, that includes message content and has a first recipient field, a second recipient field, a third recipient field and a fourth recipient field; assigning the one or more primary recipients to the first recipient field, using the known electronic messaging system application, the one or more primary recipients to receive the message content in an unedited form; editing the message content of the primary electronic message, using the known electronic messaging system application, creating the first edited message having a first edited message content, the first edited message content is different than the unedited message content; assigning at least one of the one or more secondary recipients to the fourth recipient field, using the known electronic messaging system application, where the at least one of the one or more secondary recipients assigned to the fourth recipient field receives the first edited message; editing the message content of the primary electronic message, using the known electronic messaging system application, creating a second edited message having a second edited message content, the second edited message content is different than the unedited message content and the first edited message content; transmitting the primary electronic message directly from the known electronic messaging system application to the one or more primary recipients assigned to the first recipient field via the Internet; and transmitting the first edited message directly from the known electronic messaging system application to the one or more secondary recipients assigned to the fourth recipient field via the Internet, wherein the first recipient field represents a list of “to” recipients, the second recipient field represents a list of carbon copy (“cc:”) recipients, the third recipient field represents a list of blind carbon copy (“bcc:”) recipients and the fourth recipient field represents a list of visible carbon copy (“vcc:”) recipients, wherein the first visible carbon copy recipient is invisible to the second visible carbon copy recipient and the second visible carbon copy recipient is invisible to the first visible carbon copy recipient; and wherein the carbon copy recipients and the blind carbon copy recipients, and the corresponding electronic messages, are visible to the first and second visible carbon copy recipients.