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WO2002019120A1
WO2002019120A1 PCT/US2001/022864 US0122864W WO0219120A1 WO 2002019120 A1 WO2002019120 A1 WO 2002019120A1 US 0122864 W US0122864 W US 0122864W WO 0219120 A1 WO0219120 A1 WO 0219120A1
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    • G06—COMPUTING OR CALCULATING; COUNTING
    • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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    • G06Q10/107—Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L51/00—User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
    • H04L51/21—Monitoring or handling of messages
    • H04L51/212—Monitoring or handling of messages using filtering or selective blocking
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L51/00—User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
    • H04L51/21—Monitoring or handling of messages
    • H04L51/214—Monitoring or handling of messages using selective forwarding
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L51/00—User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
    • H04L51/48—Message addressing, e.g. address format or anonymous messages, aliases

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  • the present invention relates to a system and method for forwarding electronic messages, and more particularly, relates to a system and method for use of a remote e-mail forwarding system capable of preventing or forwarding e-mail transmitted to one or more e-mail addresses.
  • ISP Internet Service Provider
  • AOL America Online
  • Netcom Netcom
  • Redconnect an internet based e-mail service
  • juno rocketmail
  • yahoo internet based e-mail service
  • the e-mail address is unique to the e-mail service provider.
  • the uniqueness of an address to a selected provider is often apparent on the face of the address, e.g., DQuine@aol.com, Quine@juno.com or DouglasQuine@yahoo.com.
  • a user or subscriber to a particular e-mail service may from time to time desire or need to change service providers (e.g., from DQuine@aol.com to QuineDo@pb.com).
  • Exemplary motivation for these changes may derive from the fact that an alternative service provider charges lower rates, or the existing provider's inability to upgrade its service.
  • a user who desires to change from one e-mail service provider to another suddenly faces the reality of being bound to the old service provider because the user's address is unique to that one provider.
  • a sudden and complete changeover is in many circumstances impossible because the community of people who wish to send electronic messages to the user are only aware that the old address exists.
  • an e-mail address may be published in an industry directory that is only published once every year or two years.
  • the e-mail address may be printed on a business card which cannot be retracted and corrected.
  • the user incurs a potentially significant loss of prospective business by abandoning the old address.
  • Some service providers offer their user-subscribers the option of a message forwarding service. These forwarding services operate by receiving the incoming message, retrieving the portion of the incoming message that identifies a selected user who subscribes to the forwarding service, associating the selected user with a forwarding address through the use of a lookup table, and transmitting the message to the forwarding address.
  • the forwarding services differ from the normal message delivery service that the central service provider offers because a portion of the forwarding address belongs to another central service provider.
  • the forwarded message is actually delivered to its intended recipient by the other or second service provider, i.e., the forwarded message passes through two central service providers, as opposed to just one provider.
  • the intended message recipient is free to change the second provider with regularity provided that the recipient always informs the forwarding service of each change in the second provider.
  • this message forwarding system only works with viable e-mail address, that is, the e-mail address associated with the first service provider must still be active and not obsolete.
  • few e-mail services offer forwarding services and few, if any, offer to forward e- mail after the account is closed. Otherwise, the first service provider is only enabled to send the later mentioned MAIL DAEMON message back to the original sender of the e-mail message.
  • the present invention relates to a method and system for forwarding an e-mail message intended to be delivered to an intended e-mail address to a remote forwarding e-mail computer in the event the e-mail address is disfavored.
  • the remote e-mail forwarding computer is located at a unique e-mail address that is programmable to associate disfavored e-mail addresses with forwarding e-mail addresses.
  • a subscriber of the remote e-mail forwarding computer prescribes at least one disfavored e-mail address and at least one forwarding e-mail address in the remote e-mail forwarding computer.
  • a user of the e-mail forwarding service then sends the e-mail message to the remote e-mail forwarding computer when the intended address is disfavored.
  • the e-mail forwarding computer parses the intended e-mail address from the e-mail message to determine if there is a disfavored e-mail address associated with the intended e-mail address.
  • the parsing of the e-mail message includes the step of comparing the intended e-mail address to a look-up table to determine if the intended e-mail address is included as a disfavored e-mail address in the look-up table.
  • the remote e-mail forwarding computer sends the e-mail message from the remote computer to a computer associated with at least one forwarding address if there is determined at least one disfavored e-mail address associated with the intended e-mail address.
  • the remote computer may be further operative to initiate additional actions for e-mail messages received from predetermined senders.
  • a subscriber for the e-mail forwarding services of the remote computer may store names of predetermined senders (e.g., chrisc@mail.com) in the remote computer and if the remote computer receives an e-mail message from that predetermined sender (chrisc@mail.com) who desires to forward a message to the subscriber, then the remote computer may be configured to prevent such an e-mail forwarding action as well as notify the sender of the denial of forwarding services in regards to at least that subscriber.
  • predetermined senders e.g., chrisc@mail.com
  • FIG. 1 depicts an electronic e-mail messaging system embodying the present invention
  • FIG. 2 and 3 depict flowcharts depicting the operation of the present invention
  • Fig. 4 depicts a look-up table used by the present invention
  • Figs. 5A and 5B depict e-mail messages illustrating the operability of the e- mail messaging system of Fig. 1 ;
  • Fig. 6 depicts a look-up table having dynamic parameters in accordance with the present invention.
  • Fig. 7 depicts a flowchart illustrating the operation of the present invention including the blocking feature for forwarding e-mail.
  • FIG. 1 schematically depicts a conventional INTERNET telecommunications system 10.
  • the FIG. 1 system is exemplary in nature.
  • the present invention can be implemented as program control features on substantially all telecommunications service provider systems, and system 10 is intended to represent any operable telecommunications system that is used by any telecommunications service provider in conducting communication operations (e.g., facsimile, pager, mobile phone and PDA computers).
  • INTERNET is well known in the art as designating a specific global international computer network that operates according to the TCP-IP protocol.
  • a portion of the INTERNET receives or has in the past received funding from various United States governmental agencies including ARPA, NSF, NASA, and DOE.
  • INTERNET communications protocols are promulgated by the Internet Engineering Task Force, according to standards that are currently set forth in RFC 1602.
  • Telecommunications system 10 includes a plurality of user or signal origination sites 12, 14 and 16, with each site being depicted in reference to a PC capable of generating and transmitting e-mail messages, wherein each site 12, 14 and 16 corresponds to a specific telecommunications address.
  • a user may utilize one site or a plurality of sites.
  • a single city or local service area may have millions of these signal origination sites.
  • Each site 12, 14 and 16 corresponds to a telecommunication address that belongs to an individual, business, and other entity having need to avail themselves of telecommunications services.
  • each origination site 12, 14 and 16 feeds its signal (addressed to a subscriber identified at a selected service provider) to an internet service provider 18 (ISP), which in turn preferably feeds the signal to a local router node 20 that directs the local signal to a relay system, e.g., the INTERNET cloud 22, which transmits the signal to a router 24 through a series of relays.
  • ISP internet service provider 18
  • the signal eventually arrives at an internet service provider 26 through router 24.
  • a plurality of destination sites 28, 30, 32, 38, 40 and 42 are shown connected to internet service providers 26 and 36 with each site being depicted in reference to a PC capable of generating and transmitting e-mail messages, wherein each site corresponds to a specific telecommunications address.
  • telecommunications system 10 includes a plurality of routers (e.g., routers 24 and 34) with each internet service provider being connected to a plurality of user sites (e.g., PC's 38, 40 and 42).
  • telecommunications system 10 additional includes a messaging forwarding system 44, which as will be further discussed below, enables e-mail messages to be automatically forwarded to a forwarding address, which forwarding address is associated with a currently undeliverable e-mail address.
  • Messaging forwarding system 44 preferably includes a PC 46 connected to an internet service provider 48, which PC 46 is provided with a unique e-mail address (corrections@emailangel.com) and software programmed to perform the below described steps necessary to operate the present invention e-mail forwarding system 44.
  • Internet service provider 48 is preferably connected to INTERNET 22 via router 50. As shown in Fig.
  • system 44 includes a software program that includes a look-up table 50, which is programmable by users to provide an e-mail forwarding address 52 associated with pre-programmed defunct (undeliverable) e-mail addresses 54. It is to be appreciated that users of the present invention e-mail forwarding system 44 may access and program the look-up table 50 of system 44 through any conventional known means, including via the internet 22 in which a user at PC site 26 accesses the look-up table 50 in system 44, via the internet 22, via routers 24 and 50, and internet service providers 26 and 48.
  • Look-up table 50 may include a plurality of defunct subscriber addresses (56+N), with each defunct address being associated with one or more forwarding addresses (58+M).
  • system 44 mention is made to both a "user” and “subscriber” of system 44. It is to be understood that a “user” of system 44 refers to anyone who is capable of transmitting an e-mail message and accesses system 44 when it is desired to forward the message to a forwarding address, which forwarding address the sender is unaware of.
  • a “subscriber” of system 44 refers to anyone who subscribes to the e-mail forwarding service of system 44 in which the subscriber registers both a defunct e- mail address 54 and at least one e-mail forwarding address 52 with system 44. And of course e-mail forwarding system 44 is accessible by any user.
  • a subscriber of system 44 closes an e-mail account (e.g., user@oldaccount.com) for what ever reason, the subscriber may however still desire to continue to receive messages sent to that address (e.g., user@oldaccount.com), but now wants to receive those messages at a different account (e.g., subscriber@newaccount.com).
  • subscriber@newaccount.com e.g., subscriber@newaccount.com
  • the subscriber now merely accesses the subscriber's designated account in system 44, via any known means such as the internet, registers the defunct e-mail address (e.g., user@oldaccount.com) and associates it with a desired forwarding e-mail address (e.g., subscriber@newaccount.com).
  • the defunct e-mail address e.g., user@oldaccount.com
  • a desired forwarding e-mail address e.g., subscriber@newaccount.com
  • FIG. 1 is exemplary in nature, and those skilled in the art understand that equivalent substitutions of system components can be made.
  • electrical communications over conductive telephone lines, optical communications over optical fibers, radio communications, and microwave communications are substantially equivalent for purposes of the invention.
  • messages could be relayed through e-mail, facsimile, pager, PDA device or other capable communications system. The method of use of system 44 will now be described with reference to Figs.
  • Fig. 2 when an email sender 14 desires to transmit a message to a recipient 30 having a known e-mail address (e.g., quine@luv-npi.com) of the recipient, the sender 14 transmits the e-mail message 500 (Fig. 5a) through conventional e-mail protocol, whereby the message is delivered to the identified mail server 26 (e.g., luv-npi) of the recipient 30, via the senders ISP server 18 (step 100).
  • a known e-mail address e.g., quine@luv-npi.com
  • the sender 14 transmits the e-mail message 500 (Fig. 5a) through conventional e-mail protocol, whereby the message is delivered to the identified mail server 26 (e.g., luv-npi) of the recipient 30, via the senders ISP server 18 (step 100).
  • the identified mail server 26 e.g., luv-npi
  • the recipient's 30 mail server 26 then receives the e-mail message (step 102), and if the e-mail account is valid (e.g., quine@luv- npi.com) (step 104), the e-mail message is then accessible to the view and thus considered delivered (step 106). If the account is not a valid account (e.g., quine@luv-npi.com) then the identified e-mail server 26 (e.g., luv-npi) rejects the request (step 108) and sends a MAIL-DAEMON message 510 (Fig. 5b) to the senders 14 e-mail server 18 indicating that the message is not deliverable (step 110).
  • the e-mail account e.g., quine@luv- npi.com
  • the identified e-mail server 26 rejects the request (step 108) and sends a MAIL-DAEMON message 510 (Fig. 5b) to the senders 14
  • the sender's e-mail server 18 then sends a message to the sender 14 that the attached e-mail message is undeliverable. Since the sender 14 cannot contact the recipient (e.g., quine) via the now defunct e-mail address 54 (e.g., quine @luv-npi.com), the sender 14 is presented with the problem of how to contact the recipient. In order to overcome this problem, the present invention e-mail forwarding system 44 provides a solution by forwarding the e-mail message to a new address so long as the recipient 30 (e.g., quine) subscribes to the forwarding service of the system 44.
  • the recipient e.g., quine
  • the recipient e.g., quine registers the defunct e-mail address 54 (e.g., quine @luv-npi.com) with the system 44 and instructs the system to forward all messages to a specified forwarding e-mail address 52 (e.g., quine@docsense.com), as depicted in the look-up table of Fig. 4.
  • a specified forwarding e-mail address 52 e.g., quine@docsense.com
  • the sender 14 now forwards the entire message 510 that was previously sent to the intended recipient's defunct e-mail address (e.g., quine@luv-npi.com), and rejected, to the e-mail address (e.g., corrections@emailangel.com) assigned to the e-mail forwarding system 44 (step 200).
  • the e-mail server 48 e.g., emailangel.com
  • the e-mail server 48 that received the message then informs the forwarding system 44 of the receipt of this message and afterwards the forwarding system 44 receives the message from the e-mail server 48 (step 202).
  • the forwarding system 44 parses message 510 and extracts the intended address for the recipient (e.g., quine@luv-npi.com) from the message (step 204).
  • the forwarding service 44 then does a look-up in table 50 for the intended address (e.g., quine@luv-npi.com) to determine if this address has been registered by a subscriber in the forwarding system 44 (step 206). If no, system 44 sends an e-mail message back to the sender 14 informing the sender 14 that the defunct address of the recipient 30 (e.g., quine@luv-npi.com) is not registered with the forwarding system 44 (step 208).
  • forwarding system 44 sends the e-mail message 510 addressed to the recipients defunct address 54 (e.g., quine@luv-npi.com) to the recipient subscriber's new e-mail address 52 (e.g., quine@docsense.com) as prescribed in the look-up table 50 of the forwarding system 44 (step 210).
  • the recipients defunct address 54 e.g., quine@luv-npi.com
  • new e-mail address 52 e.g., quine@docsense.com
  • forwarding system 44 then sends an e-mail to the sender 14 indicating that the message original addressed to a defunct e-mail address has now been properly forwarded.
  • e-mail forwarding system 44 a sender merely forward a rejected e-mail message to the e-mail address (e.g., corrections@emailangel.com) associated with the forwarding system 44 to determine if the previously rejected message can be forwarded to a proper e-mail address. And if it can, the forwarding system automatically forwards the message to an e-mail address as prescribed by the recipient.
  • a user of system merely has to forward a rejected e-mail message to forwarding system 44 to utilize its forwarding services.
  • the look-up table of the e-mail forwarding system 44 may preferably have dynamic parameters in which a subscriber of system may have an account including one or more disfavored e-mail addresses that are associated with one or more forwarding e-mail addresses.
  • look-up table 60 is shown having three subscriber accounts 62, 64 and 66.
  • account 62 a subscriber is shown to have listed three disfavored e-mail addresses (e.g., doug@yahoo.com, doug@hotmail.com and doug@obsolete.com) in association with a single forwarding e-mail address (e.g., doug@current.com).
  • a user of system 44 uses it to forward e-mail to anyone of the listed disfavored e-mail addresses (e.g., doug@yahoo.com, doug@hotmail.com and doug@obsolete.com) the system 44 automatically forwards the e-mail to the single prescribed forwarding e-mail address (e.g., doug@current.com) regardless of which one the disfavored e-mail addresses (e.g., doug@yahoo.com, doug@hotmail.com and doug@obsolete.com) the e-mail message was intended for.
  • the single prescribed forwarding e-mail address e.g., doug@current.com
  • a subscriber is shown to have listed a single disfavored e-mail address (e.g., doug@obsolete.com) in association with three forwarding e-mail addresses (e.g., doug@work.com, doug@home.com and doug@wireless.com).
  • a user of system 44 uses it to forward e-mail intended for the listed single disfavored e-mail address (e.g., doug@obsolete.com)
  • the system 44 automatically forwards the e-mail message to each one of the prescribed e-mail addresses (e.g., doug@work.com, doug@home.com and doug@wireless.com).
  • a subscriber is shown to have listed three disfavored e-mail addresses (e.g., doug@yahoo.com, doug@hotmail.com and doug@obsolete.com) in association with three forwarding e-mail addresses (e.g., doug@work.com, doug@home.com and doug@wireless.com).
  • three disfavored e-mail addresses e.g., doug@yahoo.com, doug@hotmail.com and doug@obsolete.com
  • forwarding e-mail addresses e.g., doug@work.com, doug@home.com and doug@wireless.com.
  • a user of system 44 uses it to forward e-mail to anyone of the listed disfavored e-mail addresses (e.g., doug@yahoo.com, doug@hotmail.com and doug@obsolete.com)
  • the system 44 automatically forwards the e-mail message to each one of the prescribed e-mail addresses (e.g., doug@work.com, doug@home.com and doug@wireless.com).
  • the prescribed e-mail addresses e.g., doug@work.com, doug@home.com and doug@wireless.com.
  • a subscriber of system 44 may maintain multiple accounts whereby a single subscriber may maintain each of the previous described accounts 62, 64 and 66.
  • the e-mail forwarding system 44 is preferably operative to prevent the forwarding of e-mail messages sent from predetermined senders. It is now to be understood that a subscriber of system 44 may now register the e-mail addresses of senders who are not to have e-mail forwarded to them.
  • system 44 determines if the e-mail being sent from the user (chrisc@mail.com) (i.e., e-mail addresses having specified domain names (e.g., ...@junk.com)) is to be prevented from using the e-mail forwarding services of the present invention.
  • chrisc@mail.com i.e., e-mail addresses having specified domain names (e.g., ...@junk.com)
  • forwarding system 44 sends the e-mail message addressed to the disfavored e-mail address 54 to the subscriber's e- mail forwarding address 52 as prescribed in the look-up table 50 of the forwarding system 44.
  • the system 44 may transmit any type of message back to the sender if the sender's e-mail address is prescribed in system 44 for transmitting such a message in the event that the sender attempts to forward e-mail to the subscriber. For example, such a message could read: "I have been waiting for you to write me, please forward you message directly to doug@newaddress.com".

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L'invention concerne un procédé permettant d'acheminer un message électronique (100) d'une adresse électronique défavorisée vers une adresse électronique d'acheminement par l'entremise d'un ordinateur distant (110) d'acheminement de courrier électronique disposant d'une adresse électronique unique. Un utilisateur envoie un courrier électronique à l'ordinateur distant d'acheminement de courrier électronique, lequel analyse l'adresse électronique du message pour déterminer s'il existe une adresse électronique défavorisée associée à l'adresse électronique voulue.
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