Patent ID: 9577976
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations for registering a client computing device for online communication sessions, the operations comprising: receiving a message originated from a registration service that an email address provided to the registration service is not validated and that an email message will be sent or has been sent to the email address provided to the registration service; using one or more processors of the client computing device, automatically checking an email account corresponding to the email address for a validation email message; responsive to the validation email message being received at the email account, automatically parsing the validation email message to locate a validation token; and transmitting an email address validation request message that includes the email address and the validation token to an email validation server to validate the email address.