System and method for address correction of electronic messages
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1. A method comprising:
- parsing a domain portion of an e-mail address and an identifier portion of the e-mail address;
identifying a format requirement corresponding to the domain portion in a domain name database, wherein the identified format requirement is a function of an addressee'"'"'s name;
determining whether the identifier portion is consistent with the identified format requirement by comparing the identifier portion to a list of known names and utilizing a statistical frequency of the known names to determine a score relating to whether the identifier portion is consistent with one or more known names under the identified format requirement;
providing an indication of whether the identifier portion is consistent with the identified format requirement; and
providing a format suggestion based on the identified format.
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Abstract
A method for providing a corrected e-mail address, whereby the domain portion of the e-mail address is parsed and, referring to a domain format rule database, a format rule or requirement corresponding to the domain is identified. A user is informed of the format rule so that the e-mail address can be checked and corrected as necessary. The method also checks whether the format rules have been complied with, and alternative spellings and suggested corrections are determined and provided.
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13 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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parsing a domain portion of an e-mail address and an identifier portion of the e-mail address; identifying a format requirement corresponding to the domain portion in a domain name database, wherein the identified format requirement is a function of an addressee'"'"'s name; determining whether the identifier portion is consistent with the identified format requirement by comparing the identifier portion to a list of known names and utilizing a statistical frequency of the known names to determine a score relating to whether the identifier portion is consistent with one or more known names under the identified format requirement; providing an indication of whether the identifier portion is consistent with the identified format requirement; and providing a format suggestion based on the identified format. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method comprising:
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parsing a domain portion of the e-mail address and an identifier portion of the e-mail address; comparing the domain portion to a list of domain names in a domain name database to identify a format requirement corresponding to the domain portion; if the domain portion is not in the list of domain names, determining one or more domain names for which the domain portion may be a misspelling; providing the one or more domain names as potential alternative spellings for the domain portion; identifying a second format requirement corresponding to the potential alternative spellings for the domain portion; and providing a preferred alternative spelling for the domain portion based on whether the second format requirement corresponding to the potential alternative spellings is consistent with the identifier portion of the email address.
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