Patent ID: 9147082
Filing Date: 2015-09-29
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. An electronic messaging system, comprising: message server hardware available over a network; software executing on said message server hardware for receiving from a message sender over the network a message and a recipient name provided without an address associated with the recipient name; software executing on said message server hardware for determining, based at least in part upon the recipient name and a sender identifier, whether the message sender is authorized to send the message to a message recipient identified by the recipient name; software executing on said message server hardware for displaying to the message sender a plurality of mailbox categories associated with the message recipient and receiving from the message sender a selection of a least one of the plurality of mailbox categories, wherein said software for displaying omits specific identification of any addresses of any of a plurality of electronic mailboxes associated with the message recipient; software executing on said message server hardware for determining to which of the plurality of electronic mailboxes associated with the message recipient to route the message based at least in part on the mailbox category selection and routing rules stored by the message recipient; and software executing on said message server hardware for routing the message to the determined one of the electronic mailboxes over the network; wherein the system keeps the addresses of all of the plurality of electronic mailbox categories private from the message sender.