DIRECTORY WITH OPTIONS FOR ACCESS TO AND DISPLAY OF EMAIL ADDRESSES

Patent №

US 5,742,769

Granted

1998-04-21

Filed 1996

Owner

BANYAN SYSTEMS, INC.

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

08643727

A directory service allows a user to receive email messages from senders without requiring the user to reveal his/her email address. The directory service maintains users' email addresses but allows users to restrict the display of their email addresses. The directory service can cause a message to be sent from a sender to a recipient without revealing the recipient's email address.

AI classification

Planning1.00
Natural language0.04
AI hardware0.03
Speech0.02
Evolutionary computation0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Vision0.00
Machine learning0.00

Ownership

BANYAN SYSTEMS, INC.

assignment · 81490774

Assignors

LEE, EUGENE H., ADLER, MICHAEL, DALTON, LISA A, WRIGHT, DAVID A., LEE, EUGENE H., ADLER, MICHAEL, DALTON, LISA A., WRIGHT, DAVID A.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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