Patent ID: 7539728

Claim:
A system for delivering time sensitive email, the system comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions capable of; creating an email message for simultaneous delivery to a multiplicity of addressees' mailboxes on email servers, including inserting in the email message a data element identifying the message as a message for simultaneous delivery; assigning delivery time constraints to the message; delivering the message, in accordance with the time constraints and for temporary storage outside the mailboxes, to email servers having addressees' mailboxes; instructing the servers to place the message in all addressees' mailboxes at approximately a same time; and determining whether the message can be delivered in accordance with the time constraints, further comprising providing message delivery metrics, wherein determining whether the message can be delivered in accordance with the time constraints further comprises determining, in dependence upon the message delivery metrics, whether the message can be delivered in accordance with the time constraints.