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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2000
Jacques E. Belissent, Mountain View, CA (US);
Frederic C. Batty, Redwood City, CA (US);
Timothy C. Misner, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Daryl A. Huff, Saratoga, CA (US);
Anil K. Srivastava, Redwood City, CA (US);
Jacques E. Belissent, Mountain View, CA (US);
Frederic C. Batty, Redwood City, CA (US);
Timothy C. Misner, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Daryl A. Huff, Saratoga, CA (US);
Anil K. Srivastava, Redwood City, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
According to the present invention, methods, apparatus, and computer readable medium are disclosed for defining a virtual domain in an electronic messaging system are disclosed. A virtual domain node is defined that corresponds to a real (non-virtual) domain. The virtual domain node resided in a hierarchically organized directory. A plurality of virtual domain attributes are then assigned to the virtual domain node. The directory is a tree based hierarchical directory arranged in such a way even in a multiple domain environment, a name search operation is executed as if in a flat name space.