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E-mail paging system

  • US 5,905,777 A
  • Filed: 09/27/1996
  • Issued: 05/18/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/27/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a communications system including an E-Mail server coupled to an E-Mail network, the server having a database storing a plurality of records, each record being for an E-Mail recipient and including an alert signal address in an alert network in a radio communications medium, coupled to the E-Mail server, a method comprising the steps of:

  • a) storing in a recipient'"'"'s record in the database identities of selected E-Mail senders and a forwarding destination for E-Mail sent to the recipient;

    b) receiving at the E-Mail server an E-Mail message including the recipient'"'"'s identity and a received identity of a sender;

    c) accessing the recipient'"'"'s record in response to receiving the E-Mail message;

    d) comparing the received identity of the sender with the selected sender identities in the recipient'"'"'s record;

    e) sending an alert signal to the E-Mail recipient over the alert network if the received identity of the sender matches one of the selected sender identities;

    f) receiving a response signal in the radio communications medium from the E-Mail recipient in response to the alert signal; and

    g) forwarding the E-Mail message to the forwarding destination in response to the response signal.

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