System for constructing electronic mail addresses

• US 20010049723A1
• Filed: 03/23/2001
• Published: 12/06/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alan Derek Dean
• Original Assignee: Alan Derek Dean
• Inventors: Dean, Alan Derek
• Granted Patent: US 7,437,414 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/604 Address structures or formats
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/48 Message addressing, e.g. address format or anonymous messages, aliases
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4555 Directories for electronic mail or instant messaging

Abstract

A method of and system for generating a set of standardized electronic mail addresses, provide a personal name code indicative of the name of a person, a location code indicative of a known location of the person, generate an electronic mail address for said person based on the personal name code and the location code and provide a database of said electronic mail addresses for a plurality of persons at one or more locations. The preferred embodiment allows electronic mail addresses to be constructed and indexed so as to provide the easy location by a combination of some or all of family name, forenames, district, telephone area code, and for attachment of any amount of information relating to that address.

Claims

1. A method of generating a set of standardised electronic mail addresses, including providing a personal name code indicative of the name of a person, providing a location code indicative of a known location of the person, generating an electronic mail address for said person based on said personal name code and said location code, and providing a database of said electronic mail addresses for a plurality of persons at one or more locations.

2. A method according to

claim 1

, wherein the location code is a postal or area code, a telephone area code.

3. A method according to

claim 1

, wherein the personal name code preferably includes at least a person'"'"'s family name.

4. A method according to

claim 1

, wherein one or more structured addresses are created for each individual in a country, geographic region or state.

5. A method according to

claim 1

, wherein one or more subsidiary addresses, including existing electronic addresses, are attached to an individual'"'"'s electronic mail address in the database.

6. A method according to

claim 1

, including the step of attaching a unique identifier to an individual'"'"'s electronic mail address.

7. A system for generating a set of standardised electronic mail addresses, including a personal name code generator for providing a personal name code indicative of the name of a person, a location code generator for providing a location code indicative of a known location of the person, an address generator operable to generate an electronic mail address for said person based on said personal name code and said location code, and a database creator operable to provide a database of said electronic mail addresses for a plurality of persons at one or more locations.

8. A system according to

claim 7

, wherein the location code is a postal or area code, a telephone area code.

9. A system according to

claim 7

, wherein the personal name code includes at least a person'"'"'s family name.

10. A system according to

claim 7

, wherein the address creator is operable to create one or more structured addresses for each individual in a country, geographic region or state.

11. A system according to

claim 7

, wherein the address creator is operable to attach one or more subsidiary addresses, including existing electronic addresses, to an individual'"'"'s electronic mail address in the database.

12. A system according to

claim 7

, wherein the address creator is operable to attach a unique identifier to an individual'"'"'s electronic mail address.