System and method for handling electronic mail mismatches
AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorsMichael Kenneth Brown, Michael Stephen Brown, Timothy Lee Segato
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Abstract
A system and method for handling e-mail address mismatches between the address contained within a user's certificate or certificate chain, and the account address actually being used is disclosed. In order to resolve address mismatches a canonical or generic domain name or user name may, for example, be used as a lifelong address of a user that is contained in the user's certificate. Upon detection of an address mismatch, the system and method disclosed herein may automatically re-check the certificate or search for a certificate containing the canonical or generic domain name and/or user name to attempt to resolve the mismatch.
Claims12
A method, by a wireless communication device, to resolve address mismatches when searching for a public key certificate of a user, the method comprising:
- searching for the public key certificate using an email address of the user, the email address having a first username and a first domain name;
- receiving a canonical or generic domain name;
- substituting the canonical or generic domain name in the email address of the user to form a second email address;
- and
- searching for the certificate using the second email address,
- wherein the canonical or generic domain name is supplied to the wireless communication device according to an IT policy in place on a system for the device.
A wireless communication device configured to resolve address mismatches when searching for a public key certificate of a user, wherein a processor of the device is configured to:
- search for the public key certificate using an email address of the user, the email address having a first username and a first domain name;
- receive a canonical or generic domain name;
- substitute the canonical or generic domain name in the email address of the user to form a second email address;
- and
- search for the certificate using the second email address,
- wherein the canonical or generic domain name is supplied to the wireless communication device according to an IT policy in place on a system for the device.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for storing instructions for resolving address mismatches when searching for a public key certificate of a user, the instructions for execution by a processor of a wireless communication device, wherein the instructions configure the processor to:
- search for the public key certificate using an email address of the user, the email address having a first username and a first domain name;
- receive a canonical or generic domain name;
- substitute the canonical or generic domain name in the email address of the user to form a second email address;
- and
- search for the certificate using the second email address,
- wherein the canonical or generic domain name is supplied to the wireless communication device according to an IT policy in place on a system for the device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.