Patent ID: 7962561

Claim:
An Email guarantee method for operating a method comprising: receiving, by one or more computers of a system, from a sender an email to at least one human recipient; determining, by the one or more computers of the system, prior to the sending of the email to the recipient, whether the email is associated with something of value that has been put at risk of forfeiture by or on account of the sender, said forfeiture depending at least in part on an evaluative response to the email by the human recipient; after receipt of the email from the sender, electronically sending or sending with an emphasis, by the one or more computers of the system, the email to a primary inbox of the human recipient depending at least in part on whether or not the system has determined that the something of value has been put at risk of forfeiture by or on account of the sender, said forfeiture depending at least in part on an evaluative response to the email by the human recipient; facilitating the making of an evaluative response to the email by said human recipient and/or receiving or facilitating a receiving or relaying of said evaluative response of the email by said human recipient, with said evaluative response being subsequently used in a determination for forfeiture, said forfeiture, if and when it occurs, occurring at a time subsequent to the receipt of the email by the recipient inbox.