Message screening system and method
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1. A method of screening a message, comprising:
- conveying a first electronic message from a public address of a receiver to a private address of the receiver; and
delivering the conveyed first electronic message from the private address to a receiver address.
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Abstract
A method of screening a message includes conveying a first electronic message from a unique public address of a receiver to a unique private address of the receiver and delivering the conveyed first electronic message from the private address to a receiver address. The electronic message may be an email and the addresses may be email addresses.
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1. A method of screening a message, comprising:
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conveying a first electronic message from a public address of a receiver to a private address of the receiver; and
delivering the conveyed first electronic message from the private address to a receiver address. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A computer readable medium having embodied thereon a computer program for processing by a computer, the computer program comprising:
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a first code segment to assign a unique mail uniform resource identifier and a unique private address to a receiver;
a second code segment to receive an electronic message at the mail uniform resource identifier; and
a third code segment to deliver the electronic message from the mail uniform resource identifier to an address of the receiver with a sender address that includes the private address if a sender of the third message recognizes an image pattern. - View Dependent Claims (17)
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18. A message screening system, comprising:
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a database having a list of approved senders;
an email agent module configured to provide an email user with a private agent having a private agent email address and a public agent having a public agent email address;
a mail transfer module that transfers an email message from the public agent to the private agent; and
a mail delivery module that delivers the email message from the private agent to an address of the email user if the private agent email address is included in the list of approved senders. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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