System and method for integrating electronic mail accounts
First Claim
1. A system for integrating email accounts, comprising:
- a preferred email service configured to send and receive email messages for a primary email account;
a secondary email service configured to send and receive email messages for a secondary email account;
an email integration service coupled to a communication network to receive and store account information regarding the primary email account managed by the preferred email service and the secondary email account managed by the secondary email service; and
a polling agent configured, by the email integration service using the stored account information, to periodically retrieve email messages, that have been addressed to the secondary email account, from the secondary email service and to forward the retrieved messages to the primary account;
wherein the preferred email service, secondary email service and polling agent include software instructions stored in one or more non-transitory computer-readable mediums and executed by one or more computing devices on the network.
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Abstract
In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for integrating a plurality of electronic mail (email) accounts. A plurality of email services may be used to send and receive electronic messages over a wide area network, one of the email services being a preferred email service and another of the email services being a secondary email service. An email integration service may be used that is coupled to the wide area network and that is independent of the plurality of email services. The email integration service may be operable to receive account information regarding the preferred email service and the secondary email service and use the account information to configure a means for forwarding electronic messages from the preferred email service to the secondary email service.
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1. A system for integrating email accounts, comprising:
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a preferred email service configured to send and receive email messages for a primary email account; a secondary email service configured to send and receive email messages for a secondary email account; an email integration service coupled to a communication network to receive and store account information regarding the primary email account managed by the preferred email service and the secondary email account managed by the secondary email service; and a polling agent configured, by the email integration service using the stored account information, to periodically retrieve email messages, that have been addressed to the secondary email account, from the secondary email service and to forward the retrieved messages to the primary account; wherein the preferred email service, secondary email service and polling agent include software instructions stored in one or more non-transitory computer-readable mediums and executed by one or more computing devices on the network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method comprising:
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communicating, by an email integration service, with a preferred email service and a secondary email service through a communication network; receiving and storing, by the email integration service, account information regarding a primary email account managed by the preferred email service and a secondary email account managed by the secondary email service; retrieving, by a polling agent of the email integration service from the secondary email service, email messages;
that have been addressed to the secondary email account; andforwarding, by the polling agent, the retrieved messages to the primary email account; said retrieving and forwarding being performed automatically and periodically. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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