Switchboard Incorporated

Banyan Systems, Inc.

David A Wright

Eugene H Lee

Michael Adler

Lisa A Dalton

Michael Procopio

Dean Polnerow

Lawrence Z Warner

James M Canon, Jr

Nancy Blum

A directory service allows a user to receive email messages from senders without requiring the user to reveal his/her email address. The directory service maintains users' email addresses but allows users to restrict the display of their email addresses. The directory service can cause a message to be sent from a sender to a recipient without revealing the recipient's email address.

Directory with options for access to and display of email addresses

A directory service has a number of databases and a processing system with a number of processors. A first processor receives requests and passes them to one of a number of other processors to access one of the databases. The service has a firewall and a monitor outside the firewall for randomly generating names to access the database. A configuration manager communicates with applications in the database and processors and with a directory to cause applications to reconfigure in response to certain events.

On-line directory service with a plurality of databases and processors

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Sudbury, MA, United States of America

David A Wright