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Method for managing email and system

A technology of e-mail and mail, applied in digital data processing components, data processing applications, electronic digital data processing, etc., to achieve the effect of convenient processing

Inactive Publication Date: 2012-08-01
IBM CORP
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As a result of this method of communication, a recipient's e-mail box may receive repeated e-mails one after another, for example, the entire content of one e-mail is completely contained in another e-mail, in which case, although The recipient only needs to read this other email, but, because the recipient does not know in advance that the whole content of this one email has been included in this other email, the recipient often will open these two emails respectively

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[0015] see figure 1 , which schematically represents an email list 110 .

[0016] The email list 110 is displayed on, for example, user Frank's user terminal 100 connected to a mail server (not shown) via a network. The email list 110 exemplarily includes 5 emails. For the convenience of description, the numbers of emails are given in chronological order in the figure: email 1...mail 5.

[0017] Email 1: Received at 8:00, from Alex, with the subject "SoS".

[0018] Email 2: Received at 8:30, from Bob, in reply to Alex's Email 1.

[0019] Email 3: Received at 8:40, from Cachy, is a reply to Alex's email 1, but does not contain the original email 1.

[0020] Email 4: Received at 9:00, from David, forwarding Bob's email 2.

[0021] Email 5: Received at 9:30, from Emma, ​​in reply to David's email 4.

[0022] It should be pointed out that the form and content of the above list are only illustrative. For example, the illustrated list 110 only lists e-mails with the same subj...

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The invention relates to an email system of a computer network, concretely relating to a method and a system used for managing an email. The invention provides a method and a system used for managing an email at an email client end. The system is characterized by: identifying a plurality of emails having a same subject; determining an inclusion relationship among the plurality of emails; providing a user interface at the email client end, and graphically displaying the plurality of emails and the inclusion relationship among the plurality of emails on the user interface. According to the method and the system, a user is allowed to identify and process the inclusion relationship among the plurality of emails having the same subject.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to an electronic mail system of a computer network, in particular to a method and a system for managing electronic mail in an electronic mail client. Background technique [0002] Email is a widely used communication tool on the Internet. In a collaborative work environment, people often use the Internet to communicate information and discuss issues on a specific topic through e-mail over a period of time. In this case, an e-mail sent by a sender to one or more recipients may be replied or forwarded by the recipients, and such replies or forwards may be repeated continuously. As a result of this method of communication, a recipient's e-mail box may receive repeated e-mails one after another, for example, the entire content of one e-mail is completely contained in another e-mail, in which case, although The recipient only needs to read the other e-mail, but since the recipient does not know in advance that the whole content of th...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06Q10/10
CPCG06Q10/10G06F1/00G06Q10/107
Inventor 王晓晴裘民民丁宏伟董进
Owner IBM CORP
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