Patent ID: 7137070

Claim:
A method for anticipating responses to communication content, comprising: delivering, by using at least one messaging server that provides electronic communication service over a network to at least one particular recipient, a plurality of electronic messages from a plurality of separate senders to said particular recipient, wherein at least one of said plurality of electronic messages is a non-sample content message; receiving, at said messaging server, at least one actual response specified by said particular recipient to at least one separate type of content for each of said plurality of electronic messages by detecting a separate graphical display attribute selected by said particular recipient to associate with each said at least one separate type of content within a display of each of said plurality of electronic messages, wherein each said separate graphical attribute represents at least one separate type of response from among a plurality of types of responses; storing, in a database, said at least one actual response to said at least one separate type of content specified by said particular recipient through each said separate graphical display attribute; and, enabling said messaging server to detect a proposed communication request from a particular sender for said particular recipient and to return to said particular sender anticipated responses of said particular recipient to said proposed communication request determined from a selection of said stored actual responses associated with at least one of said separate type of content appearing within said proposed communication request.