Patent ID: 7921170
Filing Date: 2011-04-05
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for generating a virtual electronic mail address comprising the steps: generating a database that defines organizational relationships between entities in the database; creating a syntax to define virtual email destination locations, the syntax being related to the organizational relationships between entities in the database; generating one or more electronic mail destination locations to send an electronic message, at least one of the destination locations being a virtual email location, the virtual email address being generated using the created syntax; generating an electronic mail message to be sent to the generated one or more electronic mail destination locations; detecting and intercepting an attempt to transmit an electronic mail message; identifying the generated one or more electronic mail destination locations; determining whether any of the one or more electronic mail destination locations is a virtual electronic mail destination location; when the determination is that at least one of the electronic mail destination locations is a virtual electronic mail destination location, determining an actual electronic mail destination corresponding to the virtual electronic mail destination location and based on the syntax of the virtual electronic mail destination location; and transmitting the generated electronic mail message to the identified actual electronic mail destination locations, said actual locations are identified in the electronic mail message or determined from a virtual email destination location described by the created syntax.