Method and system for providing automatic email address book

• US 20050198180A1
• Filed: 02/23/2005
• Published: 09/08/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Times Internet Limited
• Original Assignee: Times Internet Limited
• Inventors: Pradhan, Gopal, Paniker, Vinod, Khanolkar, Vidyesh
• Application Number:
  US11/064,061
• Publication Number:
  US 20050198180A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

An address book is created automatically when a user sends, replies or forwards mail. The email addresses and mobile numbers to which a mail or message has been sent are stored in the address book. This information is presented to the user the next time he tries to compose another email or SMS and types the first character of an email address. The Address Prompter technology of the present invention enables an internet based application to build memory and intelligence into it, by remembering not only the numbers but also the contacts from which the user has received messages.

Claims

1. A method for providing an automatic electronic mail address book at a server in a client server based communication network, said method comprising the steps of:

parsing an email to extract the email addresses or mobile numbers to which the user has sent or received some communication through said network;

storing the parsed email addresses in a address book folder;

showing a contact address list to the user containing the addresses fetched from said folder when the user is sending a new email; and

dynamically updating said address list as and when the user types the characters for the recipient'"'"'s address.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the email addresses are parsed from the headers of the emails sent by the user and stored in said folder in a sorted order.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user is presented with said contact address list instantly on typing the first character of recipient'"'"'s address.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein said contact list is presented in a sorted order in a window in the browser.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the addresses in the contact list are hyperlinks and automatically reach the space allotted for the recipients address when they are clicked.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein a user can click on more than one address.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the network comprises internet and intranet.

8. A system for providing an automatic electronic mail address book at a server in a client server based communication network comprising:

a parsing engine for extracting the email addresses or mobile numbers to which a user has sent or received some communications;

a database system for storing the parsed addresses in a folder; and

a script executing at the server for presenting a contact address list to the user containing addresses from said folder and dynamically updating the same.

9. A method for providing an automatic electronic mail address book at a server in a client server based communication network substantially as herein described in the accompanying drawings.

10. A system for providing an automatic electronic mail address book at a server in a client server based communication network substantially as herein described in the accompanying drawings.