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Methods and system for creating and managing identity oriented networked communication

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  • US 8,316,128 B2
  • Filed: 01/26/2004
  • Issued: 11/20/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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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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