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Universal message delivery system for handles identifying network presences

US5742763A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 29, 1995
Grant dateApr 21, 1998
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Expiry dateDec 29, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04M2203/4509
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A message delivery system, for use with a communication network and in which a network presence is provided for an entity having attributes, delivers a message from a sender to the network presence. In some cases, information identifying the sender is omitted from the message. The delivery system can append non-repudiable sender information to the message. The sender can provide selected attributes as an address, and the delivery system replaces the selected attributes with an address of the network presence without disclosing the address to the sender. A software agent processes the delivered message in accordance with a processing preference included in the entity attributes.

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