Patent ID: 8606855

Claim:
A method for writing a collaborative email document with delegable authorities, the method comprising: establishing a collaborative email document on an administrator's computer, the collaborative email document comprising an email message body that includes inline editable email message text, an email “To” field, an email field indicating one or more signatories to the collaborative email document, and an email field indicating one or more collaborators of the collaborative email document; providing to collaborators copies of the collaborative email document for viewing and editing the inline editable email message text within the email message body, wherein the collaborators' copies reside on collaborators' computers; updating the copies of the collaborative email document on the collaborators' computers using at least an instant messaging protocol with revisions of the inline editable email message text from the collaborators; and sending the collaborative email document with the revisions of the inline editable email text message from the administrator's computer to addressees.