A newly published BlackBerry patent app would offer automated message signature text capability to individual messages based on the attributes and characteristics of that message.

U.S. Patent Application 20060288219, "Automation selection and inclusion of a message signature," is defined by its Patent Abstract.

The Abstract describes:

"A system and method for the creation and automated selection and inclusion an automated signature text with an electronic message, wherein the automated selection of the automated signature text is dependent on attributes of the message, the designated recipients, or attributes of the designated recipients as compared to the sender's attributes, such as the encoding type and/or transport method selected for the electronic message or the location of the recipient without the need for multiple user profiles or manual editing by the sender."

Reading the Abstract a little further , we learn that "at least one of a plurality of automated signature texts is associated with at least one encoding type of a plurality of encoding types, at least one message transport type, or with at least one predeterined recipient attribute or the outcome of a comparison of the recipient attribute with the sender's attributes."

Then we are told that the appropriate automated signature text is inserted prior to encoding of the message for transport.

The best way to describe this to you further, readers, is to show you a series of drawings from the application that includes UI screens that illustrate this process. In the succession of screens, you can detect the flowchart of this application as it is applied.Now, watch the process come to life (well, at least on these set of seven screencaps from the Patent application art.











Almost there. Two more to go:



And here's a big part of the end game:



Yo recipient, it's up to you now!