Patent ID: 8375083

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving an email recipient input name from an email sender as an input to an email client application to identify an intended email recipient; determining if the email recipient input name is ambiguous; if the email recipient input name is ambiguous, resolving the email recipient input name, wherein the resolving comprises, comparing one or more employee attributes of a plurality of possible intended email recipients with one or more employee attributes of the email sender to identify a set of possible intended email recipients which have at least a portion of the one or more employee attributes which match at least a portion of the one or more employee attributes of the email sender, prioritizing the set of possible intended email recipients based upon a correlation of one or more employee attributes of each of the set of possible intended email recipients with the one or more employee attributes of the email sender, displaying the set of possible intended email recipients within a prioritized listing of possible intended email recipients to the email sender via the email client application, and receiving an indication from the email sender to identify the intended email recipient in response to the displaying; and addressing an email message in response to receiving the indication from the email sender to identify the intended email recipient.