Patents by Inventor Geoffrey C. Mulligan

Geoffrey C. Mulligan has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Electronic message forwarding system
    Patent number: 5937161
    Abstract: A telecommunications system (100) includes a service provider node (116) that is capable of forwarding electronic mail messages addressed to a user of the service provider node. The forwarding process is controlled by a message transfer agent (202), a subscriber database analyzer (204), a queue directory (206), and a message queue agent (208). The subscriber database analyzer performs a comparison between data that the user has provided and the message content. The subscriber database causes the message queue agent to forward the message to a user-defined telecommunications address based upon the message content and the results of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: USA.NET, Inc.
    Inventors: Geoffrey C. Mulligan, Scott Chasin, John W. Street, Mary M. Beazley