METRIC-BASED ELECTRONIC MAIL SYSTEM
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1. A method for routing an electronic mail (email) message, comprising:
- receiving, by a server system, an email message over a network, the email message having at least one sender-specified delivery filter associated therewith; and
dynamically identifying, by the server system, one or more email addresses of potential recipients who satisfy at least one sender-specified delivery filter associated with the email message.
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Abstract
Described are an electronic communication system and method for routing an electronic mail (email) message. The system includes a database and an email server that receives an email message from a client system over a network. The email message has sender-specified delivery criterion associated therewith. The email server communicates with the database to identify dynamically one or more email addresses of email users based on the delivery criterion associated with the email message. The email server forwards the email message to each dynamically identified email address.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for routing an electronic mail (email) message, comprising:
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receiving, by a server system, an email message over a network, the email message having at least one sender-specified delivery filter associated therewith; and dynamically identifying, by the server system, one or more email addresses of potential recipients who satisfy at least one sender-specified delivery filter associated with the email message. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. An electronic communication system, comprising:
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a database; and a server system receiving an email message from a client system over a network, the email message having sender-determined delivery criterion associated therewith, the server system communicating with the database to identify dynamically one or more email addresses of email users based on the delivery criterion associated with the email message. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A computer program product comprising:
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a computer-useable medium having a computer-readable program code embodied in said medium for generating electronic mail messages, the computer readable program code in said computer program product comprising; computer-readable program code for causing the computer to generate an email message; and computer-readable program code for causing the computer to enable a sender of the email message to select and associate a delivery filter with the email message, the selected delivery filter corresponding to a domain to which users may belong and causing an email server that receives the email message to restrict dynamically identified target recipients of the email message to those users belonging to the domain. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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