ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,379, issued on June 3.
"System and method for providing a redacted reply service" was invented by Zafar Khan (Redondo Beach, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for generating recommendations to a user based on content in the headers and body of an electronic message and transforming the email accordingly, and also providing a redacted reply service to ensure that a user hitting "reply all" cannot inadvertently unmask the identify of bcc (blind carbon copy) recipients of the original electronic message."
The patent was filed on Dec. 15, 2023, under Application No. 18/542,329.
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