Patent ID: 8566401
Filing Date: 2013-10-22
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method performed by a computer system for enabling e-mail routing and filtering based on dynamic identities, the method comprising: provisioning a new e-mail address associated with a specific identity using the computer system, wherein the specific identity controls routing of e-mail traffic associated with the new e-mail address, and wherein the new e-mail address is one of a plurality of e-mail addresses provisioned for a user having a dynamic identity comprising a respective plurality of specific identities; notifying an e-mail backend of the new e-mail address, wherein the new e-mail address includes a list of authorized senders; recording the new e-mail address and the authorized senders; receiving an e-mail; comparing an e-mail sender identity of the received e-mail to the authorized senders; determining the e-mail sender identity is not associated with one of the authorized senders; and routing incoming e-mail traffic addressed to the new e-mail address using an e-mail client executing on the computer system to a rule specified inbox associated with the specific identity associated with the new e-mail address if an e-mail sender identity of a received e-mail is associated with at least one of the authorized senders, wherein the rule specified inbox is a separate inbox associated with the specific identity, and wherein the incoming e-mail traffic is routed to the rule specified inbox based at least in part on at least one of a specific site and a specific persona associated with the specific identity, the specific persona for use in communications with a plurality of sites.