Patent ID: 7870210

Claim:
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory storage device storing executable code executed by a processor to perform operations to regulate non-business emails at an email server such that non-business emails are not delivered to business email accounts, the operations of the computer program product comprising: an operation to receive an email from a sender to a recipient; an operation to examine an email header of the email; an operation to read a content-context field in the email header, the content-context field comprising a standard header field defined by an Internet Assigned Numbers Authority and demarcated by the sender of the email according to a revised standard email protocol; an operation to regulate delivery of the email to a business email account of the recipient as identified in a recipient field of the email header in response to the content-context field designating the email as a non-business email and the recipient not being granted rights to receive non-business emails by relaying the non-business email to a recipient-defined email address; and an operation to deliver the email to the business email account of the recipient as identified in the recipient field of the email header in response to the content-context field designating the email as a business email else to deliver the email to the business email account of the recipient in response to the recipient being granted rights to receive non-business emails.