Patent Document ID: 8135675
Application ID: 12644512

Base Claim:
1. A method of efficiently generating and sending emails, comprising: creating an email template; setting up a campaign query; distributing the email template and a set of information associated with the campaign query to a plurality of server groups; running the campaign query on each of the plurality of server groups and obtaining a plurality of matching users on each of the plurality of server groups; dividing the plurality of matching users on each of the plurality of server groups into one or more batches of users; merging the email template with a set of information corresponding to each of the plurality of matching users from a first batch of users to generate a first batch of merged emails for each of the plurality of server groups; sending the first batch of merged emails directly from each of the plurality of server groups without saving copies of the merged emails; marking a status of what portion of the first batch of the merged emails was sent before a shutdown of at least one server in the plurality of server groups; and resuming the sending of the first batch of the merged emails when the at least one server in the plurality of server groups is restarted after shutdown.

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Claim 8:
8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining if a sent email was delivered to domain associated with a particular user and making one or more subsequent delivery attempts if the sent email was not delivered.