SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING AND MANAGING MESSAGE ADDRESSES
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Abstract
A system and method is disclosed for extracting and maintaining in a virtual address book one or more electronic mail addresses from one or more of the various address fields (e.g., “From,” “To,” “Cc,” “Bcc”) of one or more e-mail messages either transmitted from or received at a predetermined network node (e.g., a client or server). Electronic mail addresses stored in the virtual address book may be made available to “auto-complete” capabilities utilized during the addressing of electronic mail messages.
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37 Claims
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21. An electronic mail system having computer-readable instructions stored in a tangible memory that when executed by a processor are configured to facilitate auto-completion of text in an address field of electronic mail addresses, the instructions comprising:
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a virtual address book configured to store records for electronic mail addresses, the records comprising a plurality of fields including; i) an electronic mail address; ii) a name associated with the electronic mail address; and iii) information regarding prior interaction with the electronic mail address; an address filter module configured to; receiving a request from a user, via a user interface, to establish a priority rule for ordering records, wherein establishing the priority rule includes receiving a selection from the user of at least one field corresponding to the information regarding prior interaction with the electronic mail address for which a higher priority is assigned to for ordering records; and an auto-completion module configured to; in response to the user starting to input text to populate an address field of a new electronic mail message, identify records in the virtual address book matching the user'"'"'s partially inputted text; order the identified records based on the user established priority rule and the information regarding prior interaction with the electronic mail addresses; and display an ordered list of names corresponding to said ordering of the identified records; in response to user selection of a name from the ordered list, auto-complete the text being inputted by the user using data from the record associated with the selected name. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. A computer-implemented system configured to facilitate auto-completion of text in an address field of electronic mail addresses, the system comprising:
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a processor configured to; access, from a memory, a virtual address book comprising records for electronic mail records, the records comprising a plurality of fields including; i) an electronic mail address; ii) a name associated with the electronic mail address; and iii) information regarding prior interaction with the electronic mail address; an address filter module configured to; receiving a request from a user, via a user interface, to establish a priority rule for ordering records, wherein establishing the priority rule includes receiving a selection from the user of at least one field corresponding to the information regarding prior interaction with the electronic mail address for which a higher priority is assigned to for ordering records; and in response to the user starting to input text to populate an address field of a new electronic mail message, identify records in the virtual address book matching the user'"'"'s partially inputted text; order the identified records based on the user established priority rule and the information regarding prior interaction with the electronic mail addresses; and display an ordered list of names corresponding to said ordering of the identified records; in response to user selection of a name from the ordered list, auto-complete the text being inputted by the user using data from the record associated with the selected name.
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