Electronic mail processing system with bonus point tracking

Details Electronic mail processing system with bonus point tracking Electronic mail processing system with bonus point tracking

1997-08-14

2000-06-13

Dinh, Dung C.

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Computer conferencing

Demand based messaging

705 14, 705 17, G06F 700

Patent

active

060761016

ABSTRACT:
An electronic mail processing system for distributing an e-mail message from a sender to recipients, which encourages the recipients to open, read, and reply to the e-mail message sent from the sender. An original e-mail message sent from a sender via a sender terminal is stored in an outgoing message storage unit. An outgoing mail information registration unit stores a list of recipients to whom the e-mail message should be delivered, as well as storing information on bonus points. A message sending unit encloses bonus point information in the e-mail message and distributes it to the recipients included on the list. Upon receipt of a reply message from one of the recipients, a reception process unit gives a predetermined number of bonus points to the recipient. Each recipient's bonus points are accumulated in a recipient information storage unit, and he/she can redeem his/her bonus points for gifts depending on the accumulated points. This structural arrangement encourages the recipients to open the sender's message and write reply messages thereto in expectation of the redeemable bonus points, thus allowing the original message sender to collect more reply messages from the recipients than normally expected.

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