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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2003
Filed:
May. 09, 2000
Hartmut Weik, Stuttgart, DE;
Alcatel, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A device and process for receiving and/or forwarding electronic mail (=e-mail) are characterised in that, in the case of all the e-mail messages ( ) incoming in a receiving unit ( ), information is extracted automatically in accordance with predetermined search criteria, that as a function of the extracted information and predetermined assignment criteria, an automatic assignment of the incoming e-mail to at least one of a plurality of addresses takes place, and that the incoming e-mail is automatically stored in a storage area ( ) designated by the corresponding address(es) or forwarded to the address(es). In this way the incoming e-mail can be automatically pre-sorted and appropriately stored or forwarded to assigned addresses without the user having to perform manual tasks or the subsequent processing via a macro of the e-mail which has already arrived and been stored in a mailbox. (FIG. 1)