System and method for configuring access to electronic mailboxes
First Claim
1. A system for configuring access to an electronic mailbox comprising:
- a database that stores configuration conventions related to configuration parameters used for accessing an electronic mailbox; and
a mailbox interface module for receiving configuration information from the user that is limited in the configuration parameters required for accessing the electronic mailbox, wherein said mailbox interface module is operative for retrieving configuration conventions for a mailbox domain from the database and generating sets of potentially valid configuration parameters.
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Abstract
A system and method for configuring access to an electronic mailbox based on limited configuration parameters received from a user. A database stores configuration conventions for a mail domain. A mailbox interface module receives configuration information from a user that is limited in the configuration parameters required for accessing the electronic mailbox. The module retrieves configuration conventions for the mail domain from the database and generates sets of potentially valid configuration parameters based on the retrieved configuration conventions and user supplied configuration information for accessing the mailbox.
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43 Claims
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1. A system for configuring access to an electronic mailbox comprising:
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a database that stores configuration conventions related to configuration parameters used for accessing an electronic mailbox; and
a mailbox interface module for receiving configuration information from the user that is limited in the configuration parameters required for accessing the electronic mailbox, wherein said mailbox interface module is operative for retrieving configuration conventions for a mailbox domain from the database and generating sets of potentially valid configuration parameters. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system for configuring access to an electronic mailbox comprising:
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a database that stores configuration conventions related to configuration parameters used for accessing an electronic mailbox; and
a mailbox interface module for receiving configuration information from the user that is limited in the configuration parameters required for accessing the electronic mailbox of the user, wherein said electronic mailbox interface module is operative for retrieving configuration conventions for the mailbox domain from the database and generating sets of potentially valid configuration parameters based on the retrieved configuration conventions and attempting access to the electronic mailbox and generating new sets of potentially valid configuration parameters if the attempts for accessing the electronic mailbox of the user from the original sets of possible configuration parameters were unsuccessful. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method of configuring access to an electronic mailbox comprising the steps of:
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receiving configuration information from a user that is limited in the configuration parameters required for accessing the electronic mailbox of the user in a mailbox domain;
retrieving configuration conventions related to valid configuration parameters from a database based on the configuration information received from the user; and
generating sets of potentially valid configuration parameters based on the retrieved configuration conventions and the user supplied configuration information. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A method of configuring access to an electronic mailbox comprising the steps of:
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receiving configuration information from a user that is limited in the configuration parameters required for accessing the electronic mailbox of the user in a mailbox domain;
retrieving from a database configuration conventions related to configuration parameters used for accessing the electronic mailbox of the user based on the email address and password;
generating sets of possible configuration parameters for accessing the electronic mailbox of the user based on the retrieved configuration conventions;
attempting access to the email account from the sets of possible configuration parameters; and
generating new sets of possible valid configuration parameters if the attempts for accessing the electronic mailbox of the user from the original sets of possible configuration parameters were unsuccessful. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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- 41. A computer-readable medium comprising a mailbox interface module for receiving configuration information from the user that is limited in the configuration parameters required for accessing the electronic mailbox of the user and operative for accessing configuration conventions from a database and generating sets of potentially valid configuration parameters based on the retrieved configuration conventions and user supplied configuration information.
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