Patent ID: 7818373

Claim:
A method, in a data processing system, for providing a notification of a recipient of a previously distributed communication responding to the previously distributed communication, comprising: receiving, by a unified communication monitoring engine in a server, an indication from a monitoring agent on a client communication device of a communication currently being composed by the recipient on the client communication device using one of a plurality of different communication types; identifying, by the unified communication monitoring engine, the previously distributed communication related to the communication currently being composed, wherein the previously distributed communication is of a different communication type than that of the communication currently being composed, wherein identifying, by the unified communication monitoring engine, the previously distributed communication related to the communication currently being composed comprises: extracting, by the unified communication monitoring engine, attributes of the communication currently being composed; comparing, by the unified communication monitoring engine, the extracted attributes to attributes of previously distributed communications logged in a communication log data structure; and selecting, by the unified communication monitoring engine, a previously distributed communication as being related to the communication currently being composed based on results of the comparison; identifying, by the unified communication monitoring engine, other recipients of the previously distributed communication; and sending, by the unified communication monitoring engine, a notification message to other communication devices associated with the other recipients of the previously distributed communication, wherein the one or more communication devices output a notification output identifying that a communication is currently being composed by one of the other recipients in response to the previously distributed communication.