Patent ID: 9172668
Filing Date: 2015-10-27
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: establishing an email redirection server configured for obfuscating an email address of a subscriber using a subdomain; receiving a request from a subscriber for a subscriber subdomain; associating a subscriber subdomain with an email address of the subscriber; storing the email address of the subscriber and the subscriber subdomain in a data store associated with the email redirection server; determining whether at least one email received by the email redirection server is associated with a subscriber, including determining that the at least one email is at least one of from the subscriber or to the subscriber at least partially based on whether the at least one email includes at least the subscriber subdomain in a domain part of a “to” address of the at least one email; and responsive to the determining whether the at least one email received by the email redirection server is associated with a subscriber, at least: wherein at least one of the establishing, receiving, associating, storing, determining, handling or notifying is at least partially encoded in one or more non-transitory computer-readable media.