Abstract: A method of delivering email from a sender to a recipient, via a redirection service, including the step of the sender obtaining the recipient's telephone number. Thereafter, the sender forwards an email message to the email address: <telephone number>@<redirection service domain>. The redirection service receives the message and checks to see whether the recipient's telephone number is registered with the redirection service. If the recipient's telephone number is registered, the redirection service forwards the email message to an address which has previously been specified by the recipient. A similar method applies for directing a computer user to an Internet site associated with a person or business, via a redirection service.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 7, 2002
Publication date:
March 13, 2003
Applicant:
AUTOMATIC PTY LTD
Inventors:
Robert Barkley Pickup, Mark David Yeoman