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

Claim 17:
18. A non-transitory machine readable medium having stored thereon processor-executable instructions that when executed cause performance of operations, the operations comprising:
receiving a first email from a first email account, wherein the first email comprises an indication of a first email address of the first email account;
determining a requested service based upon the first email;
determining a location associated with the first email account;
determining a set of service providers corresponding to the requested service based upon the requested service determined based upon the first email 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 email; and
a determination that the first service provider is within a threshold distance from the location; and

responsive to the first email, automatically and without user intervention:
generating, by a communication system, a first disposable email address (DEA), corresponding to the first email account, for one or more communications corresponding to the requested service determined based upon the first email;
generating, by the communication system, a second email based upon (i) the first DEA and (ii) the first email used to determine the requested service, wherein the second email comprises an indication of the first DEA as a sender of the second email; and
transmitting, by the communication system, the second email to a set of email accounts comprising a second 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.