Information technology for exchanging structural organizational information
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsVladimir Gamaley, Gili Nachum, Gil Perzy
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Abstract
Facilitating communications by receiving from a requestor a request regarding an alternate of a contact, where a computer network address of the contact is known to the requestor, and where the request identifies the alternate using an alias in which the computer network address of the contact is modified to include an alias template associated with the alternate, and forwarding the request to the alternate at a computer network address associated with the alias.
Claims20
A method for facilitating communications, the method comprising:
- receiving from a requestor a request regarding an alternate of a contact,
- wherein a computer network address of said contact is known to said requestor, and
- wherein said request identifies said alternate using an alias in which said computer network address of said contact is modified to include an alias template associated with said alternate;
- and
- forwarding said request to said alternate at a computer network address associated with said alias.
A system for facilitating communications, the system comprising:
- a communications server configured to
- receive from a requestor a request regarding an alternate of a contact,
- wherein a computer network address of said contact is known to said requestor, and
- wherein said request identifies said alternate using an alias in which said computer network address of said contact is modified to include an alias template associated with said alternate, and
- forward said request to said alternate at a computer network address associated with said alias;
- and
- an alias map in which said computer network address associated with said alias is stored, wherein said communications server is configured to use said alias map to determine that said computer network address is associated with said alias.
A method for facilitating communications, the method comprising:
- constructing an alias in which a computer network address of a contact is modified to include an alias template associated with an alternate of said contact;
- and
- sending a request to a communications server regarding said alternate, wherein said request identifies said alternate using said alias.
A system for facilitating communications, the system comprising:
- an alias constructor configured to construct an alias in which a computer network address of a contact is modified to include an alias template associated with an alternate of said contact;
- and
- a communications client configured to send a request to a communications server regarding said alternate, wherein said request identifies said alternate using said alias.
A computer program product for facilitating communications, the computer program product comprising:
- a computer-readable storage medium;
- and
- computer-readable program code embodied in said computer-readable storage medium, wherein said computer-readable program code is configured to
- receive from a requestor a request regarding an alternate of a contact,
- wherein a computer network address of said contact is known to said requestor, and
- wherein said request identifies said alternate using an alias in which said computer network address of said contact is modified to include an alias template associated with said alternate, and
- forward said request to said alternate at a computer network address associated with said alias.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.