Patent ID: 8510388

Claim:
A method for monitoring e-mail messages between an adult mentor and a juvenile protégé to ensure proper mentoring, the method comprising: presenting to a reviewer a computer-based activity tracking form that is populated with data from an underlying relational database, wherein the underlying relational database includes a content of e-mail messages addressed to an adult mentor from a juvenile protégé and a content of e-mail messages addressed to a juvenile protégé from the adult mentor, and wherein the underlying relational database includes a status of e-mail messages between the adult mentor and the juvenile protégé as determined by an e-mail interceptor; displaying a status of an e-mail, between the adult mentor and the juvenile protégé, which has been intercepted by the e-mail interceptor; in response to a displayed status indicating that the e-mail has not been reviewed by the reviewer, blocking transmission of the e-mail to an intended recipient; in response to the displayed status indicating that the e-mail has been reviewed by the reviewer, enabling transmission of the e-mail to the intended recipient; tracking a total number of e-mail messages transmitted between the adult mentor and the juvenile protégé; in response to the total number of e-mail messages exceeding a predetermined number, sending a warning message to an authority figure; and in response to the total number of e-mail messages being less than another predetermined number, sending the warning message to the authority figure, wherein the warning message describes a sender of the e-mail, the intended recipient of the e-mail, an e-mail address of the sender, and an e-mail address of the intended recipient, and wherein a display of a status of a specific e-mail message between the adult mentor and the juvenile protégé is color-coded in a single displayed cell that is assigned for the specific e-mail message and identifies a sender of the specific e-mail message, where each single displayed cell has a color-coded background, and where a color-coded background of orange indicates that an e-mail message has been sent but not reviewed, green indicates that an e-mail message has been sent and reviewed, and red indicates that an e-mail message has been reviewed and blocked because of alarming content in the e-mail message.