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Business to business secure mail

  • US 8,447,976 B2
  • Filed: 06/01/2009
  • Issued: 05/21/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for providing secure mail, the method comprising:

  • receiving, at a recipient device, a protected message from a sender device associated with a first organization, wherein the recipient device is associated with a second organization, and wherein the first and second organizations are different;

    requesting a receiving user token from a trust broker, wherein requesting the receiving user token comprises submitting a list of two or more email aliases associated with the receiving user token, wherein the two or more email aliases are federated with the trust broker;

    submitting the receiving user token to an authorization server associated with the sender device;

    receiving a user license issued by the authorization server; and

    decrypting the protected message using the user license.

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