Secure Transactional Communication
First Claim
1. A method for providing sign-up email addresses, the method comprising:
- providing a user with an option to enter a sign-up email address into a user interface provided by an Internet enterprise, the user interface requesting an email address, the sign-up email address being different from a primary email address associated with the user;
providing to an email service an association between the sign-up email address and the primary email address;
providing to the email service an association between the sign-up email address and the enterprise; and
providing a user interface wherein an email directed from the enterprise to the sign-up email address is presented in a manner that distinguishes it from emails directed to the primary email address.
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Abstract
Systems for providing sign-up email addresses are disclosed herein. A user may set up a sign-up email address for receiving emails from a trusted, Internet-based enterprise. The user may set up a dedicated mailbox folder associated with the sign-up email address or enterprise. The email server may automatically direct emails coming from that enterprise into that folder. To “unsubscribe,” the user needs only to delete the folder or the sign-up address. Emails from the enterprise to the sign-up address may be highlighted in the user'"'"'s main inbox. Thus, the user may be assured that any such email is truly from the enterprise, and not a phishing expedition or spam. Such systems also provide the user with effective tools to recognize phish or spam emails that appear to be from the trusted enterprise and not to act on them.
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1. A method for providing sign-up email addresses, the method comprising:
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providing a user with an option to enter a sign-up email address into a user interface provided by an Internet enterprise, the user interface requesting an email address, the sign-up email address being different from a primary email address associated with the user; providing to an email service an association between the sign-up email address and the primary email address;
providing to the email service an association between the sign-up email address and the enterprise; andproviding a user interface wherein an email directed from the enterprise to the sign-up email address is presented in a manner that distinguishes it from emails directed to the primary email address. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method for providing sign-up email addresses, the method comprising:
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receiving an association between a sign-up email address and a primary email address associated with an end-user of an email service; receiving an association between the sign-up email address and an Internet-based enterprise; receiving an email directed to the sign-up address from the Internet-based enterprise; and providing the email to an email client in a form that distinguishes it from emails directed to the primary email address. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A system for providing sign-up email addresses, the system comprising:
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a first computing device executing computer-program instructions for providing an email service; and a second computing device executing computer-program instructions for providing an email client and a browser; wherein the browser detects that a user has been requested to provide an email address into a web page provided by an Internet-based enterprise, provides the user with an option to enter a sign-up email address into the user interface, the sign-up email address being different from a primary email address associated with the user, provides to the email service an association between the sign-up email address and the primary email address, and provides to the email service an association between the sign-up email address and the enterprise; and wherein the email service receives the association between the sign-up email address and the primary email address, receives the association between the sign-up email address and the Internet-based enterprise, receives an email directed to the sign-up address from the Internet-based enterprise, and provides the email to the email client in a form that distinguishes it from emails directed to the primary email address. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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