Content based message delivery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016255033-A1
Application number	US-201615149743-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 9, 2016
Priority date	Aug 8, 2012
Publication date	Sep 1, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Provided herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating message sessions. In one implementation, a notification is received relating to a message submitted for delivery on behalf of a sender to a recipient. The message includes several components. At least one delivery policy is identified based on the content identified in at least one of the components. Delivery of the message is initiated according to the delivery policy.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A computing system for handling emails comprising:
a sending server that receives requests from email clients to send an email, identifies an intermediate environment through which to route the email, and sends the email to the intermediate environment; and an intermediate server in the intermediate environment that receives the email, queries a mail exchanger record to identify routing information for the email, and sends the email to a recipient system using the routing information.

2 . The computing system of claim 1 wherein the intermediate server comprises an archive server that performs an archive operation on the email before sending the email to the recipient system.

3 . The computing system of claim 1 wherein the intermediate server comprises a security server that performs a security operation on the email before sending the email to the recipient system.

4 . A method of operating an email service comprising:
in a sending server that receives requests from email clients to send an email, identifying an intermediate environment through which to route the email and sending the email to the intermediate environment; and in an intermediate server in the intermediate environment that receives the email, querying a mail exchanger record to identify routing information for the email and sending the email to a recipient system using the routing information.

5 . The method of claim 4 wherein the intermediate server comprises an archive server.

6 . The method of claim 5 further comprising, in the archive server, performing an archive operation on the email before sending the email to the recipient system.

7 . The method of claim 4 wherein the intermediate server comprises a security server.

8 . The method of claim 7 further comprising, in the security server, performing a security operation on the email before sending the email to the recipient system.

Assignees

• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Thompson William
• Parthasarathy Krishna Kumar
• Ghosal Prasanta
• Shah Shrey
• Wallace Shaun

Classifications

• H04L51/04

  Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM] · CPC title

• H04L51/224 Primary

  providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages · CPC title

• H04L51/28 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L51/48 Primary

  Message addressing, e.g. address format or anonymous messages, aliases · CPC title