Method for reducing the receipt of unsolicited bulk e-mail and providing anonymity to an email-user
AssigneeMomentous.CA Corporation
InventorRob Hall
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Abstract
The amount of unsolicited bulk e-mail messages received by an e-mail user is reduced by providing the user with a temporary e-mail address and a permanent e-mail address. The temporary addresses are generated by a server on an ongoing basis. The current temporary address is linked to the permanent e-mail address such that e-mail messages sent to the current temporary address are forwarded to the permanent address and e-mail messages sent to a former temporary address are not forwarded to the permanent address and not received by the user. The method and system also provide a degree of anonymity to the e-mail user.
Claims28
A system for enabling an e-mail user to avoid receipt of an e-mail message comprising:
- a first server means for receiving an e-mail message sent to a first e-mail address associated with the user;
- a second server means for linking said first e-mail address to a second e-mail address associated with the user;
- a third server means for forwarding said e-mail message from said first server means to said second e-mail address;
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- a fourth server means for receiving said e-mail message from said second server means and forwarding said e-mail message to the user,
- wherein said second server means is capable of de-linking said first e-mail address from said second e-mail address to avoid receipt by the user of an e-mail message sent to said first e-mail address.
A method for enabling an e-mail user to avoid receipt of an e-mail message comprising:
- receiving at a first server an e-mail message sent to a first e-mail address associated with the user;
- linking said first e-mail address to a second e-mail address associated with the user;
- forwarding said e-mail message from said first server to said second e-mail address at a second server;
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- receiving said e-mail message from said second server and forwarding said e-mail message to the user,
- de-linking said first e-mail address from said second e-mail address to avoid receipt by the user of an e-mail message sent to said first e-mail address.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.