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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2011
Linda Giessel King, San Antonio, TX (US);
Christopher Andrew Sandoval, San Antonio, TX (US);
Linda Giessel King, San Antonio, TX (US);
Christopher Andrew Sandoval, San Antonio, TX (US);
United Services Automobile Association (USAA), San Antonio, TX (US);
Abstract
An electronic communication such as an email may have multiple file wrappers of metadata added to it by a sender. Each time the email passes to a mail server during its transmission from the sender to a recipient, one of the file wrappers may be stripped off by the mail server and sent to the sender. The information sent back to the sender with the file wrapper may comprise the server name and Internet protocol (IP) address of the computing device the mail server received the email from and the name of the mail server itself, along with a timestamp. In this manner, the sender may be apprised of the location of the email at all times during its transmission, and may be apprised of the route it took during its transmission.