Patent ID: 7672999

Claim:
A process performed by a computer system for enabling the transmission of a prepared message, wherein information contained in the prepared message includes common portions intended for viewing by all recipients and one or more unique portions for viewing by selected ones of the recipients, comprising the steps of: composing the prepared message, including both the prepared message information and instructions for the one or more unique portions to selected recipients; assigning each of the one or more unique portions a respective portion access level, wherein the instructions restrict each of the one or more unique portions to be viewed only by one or more of the selected recipients having respective recipient access levels that are equal to or higher than the respective portion access level of the one or more unique portions, wherein the highest access level provides access to an entirety of the message; transmitting together the instructions, the common portions and all of the one or more unique portions with the respective portion access levels of the prepared message information to all the recipients; and each of said recipients receiving all of the prepared message and determining a recipient access level of the recipient based on information of said recipient and using said instructions to correlate said recipient access level with said portion access levels of said received message and then to present for viewing by said recipient the common portion and only the one or more unique portions, for which the recipient access level is equal to or greater than the portion access level, wherein at least one or more of said recipients are restricted from viewing at least one or more portions of said one or more unique portions.