Patent ID: 8589494

Claim:
An email forward tagging system comprising: means for establishing a connection on a network between a sender's email client having a sender's email address connected to an email-sending server and a first receiver's email client connected to a first email-receiving server, wherein said email-sending server and said first email-receiving server utilize a common email system protocol to send an email on said network; means for selecting on said sender's email client a receiver's email address; means for displaying to said sender's email client a tagging function; means for selecting on said sender's email client said tagging function, wherein the sender to select on said sender's email client said tagging function; means for sending, via said common email system protocol, said email from said email sending server to said first email-receiving server; means for receiving, via said common email system protocol, said email at said first email-receiving server from said email-sending server; means for sending, via said common email system protocol, said email received from said email-sending server in the form of one of a forward email and a reply email to a second email-receiving server connected to said network; means for automatically determining whether said forward email or said reply email include said sender's email address as a recipient of said forward email or said reply email; and means for automatically forwarding said one of said forward email or said reply email to said sender's email address based upon said tagging function when said sender's email address is omitted from said one of said forward email and said reply email.