Patent ID: 11863504
Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A computing device comprising:
a processor; and
memory comprising processor-executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause performance of operations, the operations comprising:
receiving a first message from a first client device;
determining a requested service based upon the first message;
determining a location associated with the first client device;
determining a set of service providers corresponding to the requested service based upon the requested service determined based upon the first message and the location, wherein the determining the set of service providers comprises selecting a first service provider, for inclusion in the set of service providers, from a database of service providers based upon:
a determination that at least one service associated with the first service provider at least one of matches or is related to the requested service determined based upon the first message; and
a determination that the first service provider is within a threshold distance from the location; and

responsive to the first message, automatically and without user intervention:
generating, by a communication system, a first disposable email address (DEA), corresponding to the first client device, for one or more communications corresponding to the requested service determined based upon the first message;
generating, by the communication system, a first email based upon (i) the first DEA and (ii) the first message received from the first client device and used to determine the requested service, wherein the generating the first email comprises including, in the first email, an indication of the first DEA as a sender of the first email; and
responsive to generating the first email, transmitting, by the communication system, the first email to a set of email accounts comprising a first email account of the first service provider, wherein each email account of the set of email accounts is for a service provider selected for inclusion in the set of service providers corresponding to the requested service.