Trusted e-mail communication in a multi-tenant environment
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsGregory Gourevitch, Victor William Habib Boctor, Wilbert De Graaf
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Abstract
Trusted e-mail communication may be provided. A message source organization may be validated. When a message is received from the validated message source organization for a recipient organization, a determination may be made as to whether the recipient organization supports an attribution data extension. If so, the message may be transmitted to the recipient organization with an attribution element associated with the message source organization.
Claims20
A method for providing trusted e-mail communication comprising:
- establishing a trust relationship with a multi-tenant e-mail provider;
- receiving an e-mail message;
- determining whether the e-mail message is attributed to a trusted client tenant of the multi-tenant e-mail provider;
- and
- in response to determining that the e-mail message is attributed to the trusted client tenant of the multi-tenant e-mail provider, applying an e-mail handling rule associated with e-mail messages received from trusted senders.
A system for providing trusted e-mail communication, the system comprising:
- a memory storage;
- and
- a processing unit coupled to the memory storage, wherein the processing unit is operative to:
- establish a trust relationship with a multi-tenant e-mail provider;
- receive an e-mail message from a client tenant of the multi-tenant e-mail provider;
- determine whether the e-mail message is associated with an attribution element;
- determine whether the attribution element identifies the client tenant as a trusted sender;
- and
- apply an e-mail handling rule associated with e-mail messages received from trusted senders.
A computer-readable storage device which stores a set of instructions which when executed performs a method for providing trusted e-mail communication, the method executed by the set of instructions comprising:
- establishing a trust relationship with a multi-tenant e-mail provider;
- receiving an e-mail message from a client tenant of the multi-tenant e-mail provider;
- determining whether the e-mail message is associated with an attribution element;
- in response to determining that the e-mail message is associated with the attribution element, determining whether the attribution element identifies the client tenant as a trusted sender;
- and
- in response to determining that the attribution element identifies the client tenant as the trusted sender, applying an e-mail handling rule associated with e-mail messages received from trusted senders.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.