Patent ID: 8433764
Filing Date: 2013-04-30
Classification: G06Q,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for identifying a recipient of an electronic message, the method comprising: receiving, at a server system and from a first remote computing device, an electronic message that was authored by a posting user of a messaging service, wherein the posting user had logged into an account for the messaging service at the first remote computing device using a login username and a corresponding login domain name as credentials; determining, by the server system, that the electronic message includes a target username of a target user to receive the message, but does not include a domain name for the target username; determining, by the server system, that the target username is not a registered username for the login domain name, and in response, determining, by the server system, that the target username is a registered username for a second domain name; identifying, by the server system, a second remote computing device at which a different user has logged into the messaging service using the target username and the second domain name as credentials; and transmitting, by the server system and to the second remote computing device, the electronic message.