Systems and methods for managing discardable email addresses
OwnerJean-Yves Couleaud, Charles Dasherinventors
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Abstract
The present application provides for dynamic buffer management for managing discardable email addresses. A temporary email service provider (TESP) may generate a temporary email address for user registration of a user with an email sender server (ESS), and the TESP may generate a token signed with a private key and associated with the temporary email address. The TESP may then forward a modified email (with an encrypted token) to a primary email service (PEM). The PEM may be configured to validate the token by using public key obtained from a DNS server, and verify that the email meets usage limit criterion stored by the DNS server. If validated and verified, the PEM may then make the email visible in the PEM inbox of the user.
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A method comprising:
- generating, by a temporary email service provider (TESP), a temporary email address for user registration of a user with an email sender server (ESS);
- generating, by the TESP, a token signed with a private key and associated with the temporary email address;
- causing at least one domain name server (DNS) server to:
- provide an address of a mail server of the TESP based on one or more requests associated with the temporary email address;
- store:
- a) a public key for validating the token;
- and b) a limit criterion associated with the temporary email address;
- receiving, by the mail server of the TESP, an email from the ESS, wherein the ESS obtained the address of the mail server of the TESP from the at least one DNS server;
- modifying, by the TESP, the email to include the token;
- forwarding the modified email to a primary email service (PEM) of the user, to cause the PEM to:
- validate the token using the public key obtained from the at least one DNS server;
- verify that the email meets the usage limit criterion;
- and
- forward the email to a PEM inbox of the user based on the validating and the verifying.
A system comprising:
- control circuitry configured to:
- generate, by a temporary email service provider (TESP), a temporary email address for user registration of a user with an email sender server (ESS);
- generate, by the TESP, a token signed with a private key and associated with the temporary email address;
- causing at least one domain name server (DNS) server to:
- provide an address of a mail server of the TESP based on one or more requests associated with the temporary email address;
- store:
- a) a public key for validating the token;
- and b) a limit criterion associated with the temporary email address;
- receive, by the mail server of the TESP, an email from the ESS, wherein the ESS obtained the address of the mail server of the TESP from the at least one DNS server;
- modify, by the TESP, the email to include the token;
- forward the modified email to a primary email service (PEM) of the user, to cause the PEM to:
- validate the token using the public key obtained from the at least one DNS server;
- verify that the email meets the usage limit criterion;
- and
- forward the email to a PEM inbox of the user based on the validating and the verifying.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.