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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2002
Mohamed M. Abdel-aziz, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bernard A. Traversat, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew Reid, Fremont, CA (US);
Ingrid Vandenhoogen, Los Gatos, CA (US);
William N. Joy, Aspen, CO (US);
Michael J. Clary, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Mohamed M. Abdel-Aziz, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bernard A. Traversat, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew Reid, Fremont, CA (US);
Ingrid VanDenHoogen, Los Gatos, CA (US);
William N. Joy, Aspen, CO (US);
Michael J. Clary, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Oracle America, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
System and method for facilitating communications between peers in a peer-to-peer environment and network email clients. In one embodiment, network nodes including peer nodes may host mail transfer agents. The mail transfer agents may act as bridges between peer-to-peer protocols and email communication protocols. The mail transfer agents may communicate with peers according to peer-to-peer protocols and with email clients according to email communications protocols. Peers may communicate with mail transfer agents to send peer-to-peer messages to email clients. Email clients may communicate with the mail transfer agents to send email messages to and receive email messages from other email clients via the peer-to-peer network and to obtain peer-to-peer messages from peers.