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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2003
Steven J. Smith, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kenneth A. Schmidt, San Francisco, CA (US);
Maxwell H. Bunshaft, San Francisco, CA (US);
Steven J. Smith, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kenneth A. Schmidt, San Francisco, CA (US);
Maxwell H. Bunshaft, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mindshare Design, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for accepting a recipient identifier, wherein the recipient identifier can be used to identify an electronic mail (email) recipient; generating a petition based on the recipient identifier and at least one petition rule, wherein the at least one petition rule includes at least one of: 1) a sender identification method; and 2) a recipient; and wherein the petition can be used by a email provider to allow a recipient to receive email from a sender.