Patent ID: 7788325

Claim:
A computerized method for determining a desired recipient's email address comprising: a. choosing one or more target recipients; b. providing a unique email server address for each target recipient; c. providing two or more first target recipient's data items; d. guessing a plurality of first target recipient's candidate email addresses from the unique email server address and data items; e. developing a known invalid email address for the unique email server address; f. sending a probe email addressed to the known invalid email address; g. monitoring a response of a target recipient email server for the unique email server address; h. determining, from the response, whether the target recipient email server issues a bounce in response to the sending of an email to an invalid email address; i. recording that the email address cannot be found if no bounce to the sending of the probe email occurs; and if the target recipient email server issues a bounce in response to the sending of the probe email, then: j. sending an email to the first target recipient's first guessed email address; k. monitoring the response of the target recipient email server to determine if a bounce occurs; l. recording a valid email address if no bounce occurs; m. sending a second email to the target recipient's second guessed email address if a bounce occurs; n. repeating j, k and m using the plurality of first target recipient's guessed email addresses in succession until l occurs or there are no other first recipient's guessed email addresses; o. guessing a plurality of second target recipient's candidate email addresses; p. repeating j, k, l, m and n using the plurality of second target recipient's guessed email addresses.