Automated e-mail address book update system and method for document output devices
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorTodd D. Smith
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Abstract
A method for adding a user's e-mail address to the address book of a networked document output device includes receiving an electronic message from a user, automatically extracting the sender's electronic address, and automatically adding the electronic address to an address book used by the document output device. A networked document output device includes memory for storing document data, means for sending document to users on a network, means for receiving electronic communications from a networked user, and a controller for practicing a method that includes extracting an electronic address from a received e-mail, and adding the user's address to a local address book.
Claims16
A method comprising:
- receiving an electronic message from a sender;
- automatically extracting the sender's electronic address;
- and
- automatically adding the electronic address to a local address book.
A method practiced by a networked document output device, the method comprising:
- receiving an electronic message from a sender;
- automatically extracting the sender's electronic address;
- and
- automatically adding the electronic address to an address book used by the document output device.
A networked document output device, comprising:
- memory for storing document data;
- means for sending document to electronically connected document recipients;
- means for receiving electronic communications from an electronically connected document recipient;
- and
- a controller that examines incoming electronic communications from an electronically connected document recipient, extracts the document recipient's electronic address, and adds the document recipient's address to a local address book.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.