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Electronic mail with recipient-specific content
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Inventors: Kohler, Timothy L.;
Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP)
Primary Examiner: Dinh; Dung C.
Assistant Examiner: Ho; Chuong
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
A computerized messaging system which authors messages that contain recipient-specific content, such that each recipient does not necessarily receive a message that is identical to all other recipients. To author a computerized message that contains recipient-specific content, plural portions of the message are authored, and one or more recipients to which at least one portion of the message will be sent are identified. For each recipient, at least one portion of the message is associated with the recipient, such that at least one recipient does not receive all portions of the message. Viewing options are provided to the sender so as to enable the sender to obtain visual cues as to which portions of the message are sent to each recipient or set of recipients, or to allow the sender to view a recipient list for selected portions of the message. At the receiving side, a recipient can view a received message with visual cues such that recipients of private portions of a message can know that others did not receive the private portion, and can further know who received which portions. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION It is an object of the invention to address the foregoing difficulties in conventional computerized messaging systems by providing an authoring system for computerized messages, such as electronic mail, that contains recipient-specific content.
In one aspect, the invention provides for a sender of computerized messages such as E-mail to select portions of the message or attachments which are sent only to certain recipients.
In one embodiment, authoring of an E-mail message in which selected portions of the text or attachments are sent only to certain recipients involves the steps of first creating a message and creating a list of recipients.
If no contrary instructions are entered, the entire message will be sent to all recipients.
After the author has created the list of recipients, any portion or portions of the message which are to be sent only to certain recipients are selected, such as with a pointing device or with key strokes.
A list of available recipients is provided to the sender for selection, such as with a "pop-up" menu.
The recipients for the selected text are then selected (or selected ones can be deselected, if desired).
Any other portions to be sent only to some recipients are also selected in the same way, and the respective lists of recipients for those portions are designated, resulting in a message in which one or more portions are not sent to all recipients.
As an alternative approach, the author can identify which portions of the message are for which recipients in a different manner.
At the beginning of the message, the author can select or list the intended recipient(s) for the initial portion of the message, and then compose that portion.
The author then selects which recipients are to receive the following portion, and then composes that following portion.
This procedure is continued until the message is complete.
Thus, according to this aspect of the invention, authoring a computerized message that contains recipient-specific content involves composing plural portions of the message, identifying one or more recipients to which at least one portion of the message will be sent, and for each recipient associating at least one portion of the message such that at least one recipient does not receive all portions of the message
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