SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR RECIPIENT CONTROLLED COMMUNICATIONS

• US 20130290445A1
• Filed: 03/18/2013
• Published: 10/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Great Adventure Series 103 of Allied Security Trust I (Allied Security Trust)
• Original Assignee: Daniel Gross, Erwin Gross
• Inventors: Gross, Daniel, Gross, Erwin
• Granted Patent: US 9,002,963 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/18 Commands or executable codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/42 Mailbox-related aspects, e.g. synchronisation of mailboxes

Abstract

A communication system is provided in which users associate handling data identifying how messages are to be processed with contact data. Handling data for the identified contacts in the contact data is then dispatched to those contacts. Subsequently when messages are dispatched from the locations identified by the contact data a sender of a message selects handling data to be associated with a message being dispatched. Upon receipt of a message associated with handling data the message is then processed in the manner identified by the handling data.

Claims

1. A method of controlling processing of data communicated between a first computer and a second computer among a plurality of computers connected to a communication network, the method comprising:

generating by the first computer a group of first processing criteria;

selecting by the first computer a group of second processing criteria from the first processing criteria, the selecting of the second processing criteria comprising identifying which of the first processing criteria are to be available to the second computer;

associating contact data with the first computer, the contact data comprising a plurality of contact records, each contact record comprising an address of one specific computer of the plurality of computers and a list of one or more of the first processing criteria that are allocated to the one specific computer, the associating of the contact data comprising storing or accessing the contact data by the first computer, wherein one contact record of the contact records corresponds to the second computer;

utilizing the one contact record to allocate the second processing criteria to the second computer, wherein a group of third processing criteria is to be selected by the second computer from the second processing criteria;

associating a communication dispatched by the second computer with the third processing criteria; and

processing the communication associated with the third processing criteria in accordance with the third processing criteria.