Patent ID: 7437414

Claim:
A program storage device readable by a machine and encoding a program of instructions for generating and providing access to standardized electronic mail addresses for individuals in a geographic region, the program of instructions comprising: a. instructions collecting name and known location data of an individual from an information source; b. instructions creating an at least partial entry for the individual in an index of individuals in a database, the at least partial entry being created once the name data and the known location data of the individual are collected; c. instructions triggering generation of a standardized electronic mail address for the individual once both the name data and the known location data have been collected wherein: (1) the name data includes at least a family name of the individual, and (2) the location data includes one or more of (a) a country specific postal address locator code, (b) a region specific portion of a telephone number, the instructions including: i. instructions generating a personal name code indicative of the collected name data of the individual; ii. instructions generating a location code indicative of the collected known location data of the individual; and iii. instructions generating the standardized electronic mail address for the individual based on the personal name code and the location code, wherein one or more standardized email addresses are automatically created for each individual in a country, geographic region or state without each individual providing name and known location data to the program storage device; d. instructions submitting the standardized electronic mail address for the individual to the database; and e. instructions searching the database using the personal name code and the location code for the individual to locate the standardized electronic mail address of the individual.