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Managing electronic messages with a message transfer agent

US11070511B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJan 30, 2018
Grant dateJul 20, 2021
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Expiry dateApr 23, 2038

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L61/5007
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Provided herein are systems and methods that enable management of batch email sending via at least one message transfer authority. Management includes receiving a message recipient list and a message to be sent thereto, evaluating a message delivery readiness indicator for a recipient, and based on a result of the evaluating, removing recipients, locking the message recipient list from further changes, generating a message based on the received message, calculating a probability of engagement metric including an originating node and IP address, and at least one message transfer agent for transferring the message to the at least one recipient. Management further includes coordinating the networked sever to send the generated message from the IP address via the at least one determined message transfer agent and repeating the steps of calculating, determining and coordinating until all messages have been forwarded to a message transfer agent.

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