Patent ID: 8307039
Filing Date: 2012-11-06
Classification: G06Q,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method implemented in a portable electronic device of disambiguating multiple addresses of an intended email recipient, comprising: parsing at least one of said multiple addresses in a recipient field of said email using a processor of said portable electronic device to extract information capable of distinguishing said at least one of said multiple addresses from at least another of said multiple addresses, wherein said parsing further includes: determining that the domain name of said at least one of said multiple addresses contains multiple labels; extracting, based on the determining, information from the domain name of said at least one of said multiple addresses, and wherein said information comprises said first label of said domain name and omits a second label of the domain name of said at least one of said multiple addresses; determining that extracted information, based on the extracting, is sufficient to disambiguate the intended email recipient's at least one email address from said multiple addresses; and, when the first label is not sufficient to disambiguate the intended recipient's at least one email address from said multiple addresses, then iteratively extracting a next highest level label information from said domain name and omitting at least a local part of said at least one of said multiple addresses; displaying, based on the determining, said extracted information adjacent a name of said intended recipient on a display of said portable electronic device in the recipient field of said email, wherein said name is associated with said at least one of said multiple addresses and independent of said at least one of said multiple addresses.