System and method for providing plurality of prioritized email domain names
First Claim
1. A system for provisioning an electronic mail (email) account of a user for allowing access to an electronic mailbox to retrieve email comprising:
- a mobile office platform operative as an agent between the user and electronic mailbox of the user and comprising a processor and a memory and defining a communications module and a configuration module that are operative for accessing the electronic mailbox;
the communications module configured to receive email address parameters of a user and transmit a domain name system (DNS) query to the Internet for returning mail exchange (MX) records, including email domain names, corresponding to the email address parameters of the user;
the configuration module configured to process returned MX records to determine candidate configuration parameters for accessing the email account of the user to retrieve user email; and
the configuration module configured to determine candidate configuration parameters based upon expanding a plurality of prioritized email domain names of the returned MX records and including a first preference mail domain and a second preference mail domain based upon relative geographic proximity.
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Abstract
The system and method are for provisioning an electronic mail (email) account for allowing access to an electronic mailbox to retrieve email. A mobile office platform includes a configuration module and a communications module which are operative for accessing an electronic mailbox. The communications module is to receive email address parameters of the user and transmit a domain name system (DNS) query to the Internet for returning mail exchange (MX) records, including email domain names, corresponding to the email address parameters of the user. The configuration module is to process returned MX records to determine candidate configuration parameters for accessing the email account of the user to retrieve user email. The configuration module is to determine candidate configuration parameters based upon expanding a plurality of prioritized email domain names of the returned MX records.
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15 Claims
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1. A system for provisioning an electronic mail (email) account of a user for allowing access to an electronic mailbox to retrieve email comprising:
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a mobile office platform operative as an agent between the user and electronic mailbox of the user and comprising a processor and a memory and defining a communications module and a configuration module that are operative for accessing the electronic mailbox; the communications module configured to receive email address parameters of a user and transmit a domain name system (DNS) query to the Internet for returning mail exchange (MX) records, including email domain names, corresponding to the email address parameters of the user; the configuration module configured to process returned MX records to determine candidate configuration parameters for accessing the email account of the user to retrieve user email; and the configuration module configured to determine candidate configuration parameters based upon expanding a plurality of prioritized email domain names of the returned MX records and including a first preference mail domain and a second preference mail domain based upon relative geographic proximity. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method of provisioning an electronic mail (email) account for allowing access to an electronic mailbox to retrieve email, the method comprising:
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receiving email address parameters of a user and transmitting a domain name system (DNS) query to the Internet for returning mail exchange (MX) records, including email domain names, corresponding to the email address parameters of the user; processing returned MX records to determine candidate configuration parameters for accessing the email account of the user to retrieve user email; and determining candidate configuration parameters based upon expanding a plurality of prioritized email domain names of the returned MX records and including a first preference mail domain and a second preference mail domain based upon relative geographic proximity. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium having a computer-readable program code embedded therein, said computer-readable program code configured to be executed to implement provisioning an electronic mail (email) account for allowing access to an electronic mailbox to retrieve email, comprising:
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receiving email address parameters of the user and transmitting a domain name system (DNS) query to the Internet for returning mail exchange (MX) records, including email domain names, corresponding to the email address parameters of a user; processing returned MX records to determine candidate configuration parameters for accessing the email account of the user to retrieve user email; and determining candidate configuration parameters based upon expanding a plurality of prioritized email domain names of the returned MX records and including a first preference mail domain and a second preference mail domain based upon relative geographic proximity.
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