Method, apparatus and business system for online communications with online and offline recipients
First Claim
1. A method for assigning URL'"'"'s and e-mail addresses to members of a group comprising the steps of:
- assigning each member of said group a URL of the form “
name.subdomain.domain”
; and
assigning each member of said group an e-mail address of the form “
name@subdomain.domain;
”
wherein the “
name”
portion of said URL and said e-mail address is the same and unique for each particular one of said members such that an only difference between said URL and said e-mail address for said member is that in said URL the “
@”
symbol of the e-mail address is replaced with a “
.” and
wherein said “
subdomain”
portion of said URL and said e-mail address is the same for all members of said group.
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Abstract
The present invention comprises a method, apparatus and business system for allowing on-line communications with members of a group of recipients for whom the invention has been implemented. A group may, for example, comprise members of a particular business or profession. For example, a group may consist of doctors admitted to practice medicine in the United States. Individual members of the group may or may not have existing internet presences. The invention allows online users to communicate with each member of a given group regardless of whether or not the member has an existing internet presence. In one or more embodiments, the invention does so by setting up a database of contact information for members of the group, creating an internet presence for each member of such group, creating an on-line user interface allowing a user to access the member'"'"'s created internet presence, and providing means of communications between the created internet presence and the member recipient.
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2 Claims
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1. A method for assigning URL'"'"'s and e-mail addresses to members of a group comprising the steps of:
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assigning each member of said group a URL of the form “
name.subdomain.domain”
; and
assigning each member of said group an e-mail address of the form “
name@subdomain.domain;
”wherein the “
name”
portion of said URL and said e-mail address is the same and unique for each particular one of said members such that an only difference between said URL and said e-mail address for said member is that in said URL the “
@”
symbol of the e-mail address is replaced with a “
.” and
wherein said “
subdomain”
portion of said URL and said e-mail address is the same for all members of said group.- View Dependent Claims (2)
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Specification
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Current AssigneeEveryMD LLC
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Original AssigneeFrank M Weyer, Troy K Javaher
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InventorsWeyer, Frank Michael, Javaher, Troy Kurosh
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Primary Examiner(s)Maung, Zarni
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Assistant Examiner(s)LIN, KENNY S
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Application NumberUS09/447,755Time in Patent Office1,498 DaysField of Search707/5, 707/3, 707/9, 707/102, 709/203, 709/206, 709/218, 709/219US Class Current709/203CPC Class CodesG06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling tech...G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management o...H04L 2101/37 E-mail addressesH04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in p...H04L 51/42 Mailbox-related aspects, e....H04L 51/48 Message addressing, e.g. ad...H04L 61/30 Managing network names, e.g...H04L 61/50 Address allocationH04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-part...H04M 2201/60 Medium conversionH04M 2203/4536 Voicemail combined with tex...H04M 3/567 Multimedia conference systems
