Methods and system for creating and managing identity oriented networked communication
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1. A communication management system, comprising:
- a computer appliance associated with a particular user;
a data repository coupled to the computer appliance storing a directory of contact identities;
a zone manager enabling the user to create one or more zones defined each by a business or a social activity, to associate specific contact identities with individual ones of the zones created, and to create management policies associated with and specific to each zone created; and
an identity/zone firewall, comprising an identity analyzer analyzing and validating identities detected, the firewall acting as an enforcer of management policies and serving as a gateway at the computer appliance through which incoming and outgoing communications pass;
wherein individual incoming or outgoing communications are associated at the identity/zone firewall with a zone, by one or both of identities of sender and receiver and message content, and the management policies specific to that zone are enforced before the communications are allowed to pass.
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Abstract
A software application for managing routing of communiqués across one or more communication channels supported by a data-packet-network includes one or more workspaces for segregating communication activity; one or more unique user identities assigned per workspace; and one or more contact identities assigned to and approved to communicate with a workspace administrator of the one or more workspaces using the assigned user identities. In a preferred embodiment the application enforces a policy implicitly defined by the existing architecture of the workspaces and associated user and contact identities.
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1. A communication management system, comprising:
- a computer appliance associated with a particular user;
a data repository coupled to the computer appliance storing a directory of contact identities; a zone manager enabling the user to create one or more zones defined each by a business or a social activity, to associate specific contact identities with individual ones of the zones created, and to create management policies associated with and specific to each zone created; and an identity/zone firewall, comprising an identity analyzer analyzing and validating identities detected, the firewall acting as an enforcer of management policies and serving as a gateway at the computer appliance through which incoming and outgoing communications pass; wherein individual incoming or outgoing communications are associated at the identity/zone firewall with a zone, by one or both of identities of sender and receiver and message content, and the management policies specific to that zone are enforced before the communications are allowed to pass. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
- a computer appliance associated with a particular user;
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12. A method for communication management, comprising the steps of:
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(a) creating by a user at a computer appliance associated with that user, using a zone manager software, a plurality of message zones each defined by a business or by a social activity of that user; (b) creating by the user, using the zone management software, a plurality of management policies and associating at least one management policy with each zone created; (c) associating by the user, using the zone-management software, specific contact identities with individual ones of the zones created; (d) intercepting incoming and outgoing communications at an identity/zone firewall, comprising an identity analyzer analyzing and validating identities detected, the firewall at the computer appliance through which communications must pass; (e) determining zone for intercepted communications by one or both of identities of sender and receiver and message content; and (f) enforcing whatever management policy is associated with the determined zones before the communications are allowed to pass. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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