Appeal No. 2000-1377
Application No. 08/628,415
knows only the recipient’s old e-mail address. When a user changes his/her e-mail
address, the user transmits an update e-mail address message to an address-change
server at which location the old and the new e-mail addresses are stored. At the time a
sender uses the recipient’s old e-mail address and gets an undeliverable mail error, a
request is forwarded to the address-change server and the address-change server returns
a message with the recipient’s new e-mail address. In one embodiment, the sender’s
program updates its address book based on the message returned from the address-
change server so that the recipient’s old e-mail address in the sender’s program is
updated to place therein the recipient’s new e-mail address.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method executed in a computer system for updating a recipient’s email
address, the method comprising the steps of:
receiving at an address-change server an update message from a
recipient; and
storing information from the update message at the address-change
server, the information comprising the recipient’s new email address and the
recipient’s old email address.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Tilles et al. (Tilles) 5,518,122 May 21, 1996
(filed Aug. 16, 1994)
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