公开(公告)号：EP1040626A1

公开(公告)日：2000-10-04

申请号：EP98954652.8

申请日：1998-11-25

申请人： Northern Telecom Limited

发明人： TELLO, Antonio, G. ,  MELKILD, Keith

IPC分类号： H04L12/58 ,  H04Q3/00

CPC分类号： H04Q3/005 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L51/28 ,  H04L51/30

摘要： A method and apparatus for e-mail address portability are provided. A service control point (SCP, 200) on the Internet comprises an e-mail address database (202) and a transaction processing object. The e-mail address database (202) has at least a well-known-address field (204) for storing a well-known address value and a literal address field (206) for storing a literal address value that corresponds to the well-known-address value. The transaction processing object, when called with an address translation request, accesses the e-mail address database (202). The address translation request has a well-known address value which is translated to the corresponding literal address value. After the translation, the transaction processing object returns the corresponding literal address value to the calling routine.