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US 6,366,962 B1Granted
Method and apparatus for a buddy list
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorDan A. Teibel
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Abstract
A method comprises locating a second client communication address stored on a second server using a second server identification; reading the second client communication address from the second server using the second server identification to locate the second server; and verifying the second client by requesting the second client to store a known value on a personal data area of the second server which is then read back.
Claims16
A method comprising:
- locating a first client communication address stored on a first server using a first server identification;
- reading the first client communication address from the first server using the first server identification to locate the first server;
- and
- verifying the identity of a user of the first client by reading a first data signal having an expected value from a first personal data area of the first server, the personal data area of the first server comprising a network-accessible storage area for which the user of the first client has write privileges but for which a user of a second client does not have write privileges.
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A device comprising:
- a processor;
- a machine-readable storage medium coupled to the processor by way of a bus, the storage medium storing a sequence of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the data processing device to
- locate a first client communication address stored on a first server using a first server identification;
- read the first client communication address from the first server using the first server identification to locate the first server;
- and
- verify the identity of a user of the first client by reading a first data signal having an expected value from a first personal data area of the first server, the personal data area of the first server comprising a network-accessible storage area for which the user of the first client has write privileges but for which a user of a second client does not have write privileges.
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An article comprising:
- a machine-readable medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which, when executed by a data processing device, cause the data processing device to:
- locate a first client communication address stored on a first server using a first server identification;
- read the first client communication address from the first server using the first server identification to locate the first server;
- and
- verify the identity of a user of the first client by reading a first data signal having an expected value from a first personal data area of the first server, the personal data area of the first server comprising a network-accessible storage area for which the user of the first client has write privileges but for which a user of a second client does not have write privileges.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.