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Self-removing email verified or designated as such by a message distributor for the convenience of a recipient
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Inventors: Ogilvie, John W. L.; Ogilvie, Genie L.;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Geckil; Mehmet B.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Computer Law++
Methods, articles, signals, and systems are provided for providing email message originators and distributors with default control over message removal at a message recipient's location, regardless of whether the message has been opened. For instance, a self-removing message is designated as such by the message's originator, and a self-removal enhancement is added to conventional message content before the message is transmitted over a computer network toward one or more recipients. At the recipient's location, the message is automatically deleted without additional effort by the recipient, before or after being displayed, according to the originator's instructions unless they are overridden by the recipient. ISPs and other message distributors may identify messages that should be self-removing, and make them self-removing if they are not. Thus, the burden of removing unsolicited email messages is transferred from recipients to the system and the message's originators and/or to ISPs and other email distributors. Security of messages may also be enhanced. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention relates to methods, articles, signals, and systems for self-removing email messages.
Self-removal of email (or other transmitted digital information presentations) can provide at least two advantages.
First, self-removing email can be used to enhance the security of a system by reducing the number of message copies and the life span of those copies.
Second, self-removing email can be used to reduce the inconvenience of unsolicited email by making it possible for officials, advertisers, and other broadcast email originators to present messages that do not have to be manually removed by the target audience.
A given method, article, signal, or system may use self-removing email to enhance message security, to reduce recipient annoyance, or both.
In some embodiments, self-removing email messages are encrypted with conventional tools and techniques.
To further enhance security, a message is closely coupled to executable code which reduces the number of copies of the message.
Some versions of the code allow any given copy of the message to be viewed at most once.
In some embodiments, self-removing email messages contain advertisements, but the invention may also be used to broadcast or otherwise transmit self-removing email messages which contain other materials that, at least by default, are not stored long-term on the recipient's hard disk or on other intervening nodes (the self-removal action may sometimes be expressly overridden).
For instance, news items, confidential materials, and other materials directed to a limited audience such as public notices (changes in the law, election results, tax auction notices, public hearing announcements, and so on), private club notices, and materials intended for mature audiences, may also be transmitted in self-removing email messages.
Unlike traditional email, self-removing email places the burden of selecting messages for removal and then removing them on the software and on the message originator, instead of on the message recipient
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