System and method for generating configurations used for accessing electronic mailboxes
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1. A system for generating configurations used for a user accessing electronic mailboxes comprising:
- a storage medium including a database that stores configuration conventions as sets of configuration parameters comprising at least a mail host and a login name that are sets of e-mail expressions formed by symbols that symbolically represent the configuration conventions used by email providers for a set of configuration parameters used for accessing electronic mailboxes; and
a transformer module that infers a mail domain from user supplied context data, and based on the inferred mail domain, retrieves relevant configuration conventions from the database and expands the configuration conventions retrieved from the database to generate sets of possible configuration parameters that can be tried for accessing an electronic mailbox of the user, wherein said transformer module is operative for using context data to expand a symbol into a corresponding value using context data and is operative for discovering new configuration conventions as context data is received and storing the new configuration conventions within the database.
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Abstract
A system and method generates configurations used for accessing electronic mailboxes. A database stores the configuration conventions that are sets of e-mail expressions formed by symbols. A transformer module expands configuration conventions stored in the database to generate configurations based on user supplied context data.
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1. A system for generating configurations used for a user accessing electronic mailboxes comprising:
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a storage medium including a database that stores configuration conventions as sets of configuration parameters comprising at least a mail host and a login name that are sets of e-mail expressions formed by symbols that symbolically represent the configuration conventions used by email providers for a set of configuration parameters used for accessing electronic mailboxes; and a transformer module that infers a mail domain from user supplied context data, and based on the inferred mail domain, retrieves relevant configuration conventions from the database and expands the configuration conventions retrieved from the database to generate sets of possible configuration parameters that can be tried for accessing an electronic mailbox of the user, wherein said transformer module is operative for using context data to expand a symbol into a corresponding value using context data and is operative for discovering new configuration conventions as context data is received and storing the new configuration conventions within the database. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method of generating configurations used for a user accessing electronic mailboxes comprising:
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inferring a mail domain from user supplied context data and retrieving from a database configuration conventions comprising at least a mail host and a login name as sets of configuration parameters that are sets of e-mail expressions formed by symbols that symbolically represent the configuration conventions used by email providers for a set of configuration parameters used for accessing electronic mailboxes; and expanding the configuration conventions retrieved from the database to generate sets of possible configuration parameters that can be tried for accessing an electronic mailbox of the user, wherein said transformer module is operative for using context data to expand a symbol into a corresponding value using context data and is operative for discovering new configuration conventions as context data is received and storing the new configuration conventions within the database. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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