Patent Document ID: 8392511
Application ID: 12015585

Base Claim:
1. A method of tracking email dispersion through content substitution comprising: identifying a set of at least two email receiving entities for an email dispersion; identifying textual content of a body of an email message for the email dispersion to the set of email receiving entities; programmatically determining a plurality of words within textual content of the body of the email message, wherein each of the determined words have at least one synonym; generating a set of replacement words for each of the determined words, wherein each of the replacement words is a synonym of the corresponding one of the determined words; for each different email message to be sent to a specific one of the receiving entities, programmatically substituting at least one replacement word for a corresponding one of the determined words to generate an entity specific message, wherein each entity specific message contains a unique combination of substitutions in the body of the entity specific message, so that no two entity specific message are identical; maintaining a record of which email receiving entities are associated with which entity specific message; and conveying the entity specific messages to the set of email receiving entities.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: determining a number of unique combinations for entity specific messages based upon a total number of determined words and a total number of replacement words for the determined words; comparing a number of identified email receiving entities against the determined number of unique combinations; when the comparing step determines that there are more identified email receiving entities than unique combinations, automatically increasing at least one of a number of determined words within the textual content of the body of the email message and a number of replacement words contained within at least one set of replacement words; and repeating the comparing and increasing steps until there are more unique combinations than identified email receiving entities, at which point the method is able to proceed to the substituting, maintaining, and conveying steps.