METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EMAIL COMMUNICATION

    公开(公告)号:US20100250929A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-09-30

    申请号:US12414957

    申请日:2009-03-31

    IPC分类号: H04L9/32 G06F15/16

    摘要: According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of verifying to a recipient of an email that a sender of the email possesses a mobile telecommunications device associated with a specific telephone number. The method comprises at the sender, sending an identifier of the email content and the telephone number to a server via the Internet (A1), at the server, receiving the identifier and the phone number from the sender, generating a verification code, sending the verification code to the sender via the Internet, and storing the verification code with the identifier and the telephone number (A2), at the sender, receiving the verification code from the server and returning the verification code to the server in a Short Message Service message sent by said mobile telecommunications device (A3), at the server, confirming that the received verification code and the telephone number from which the Short Message Service message originated match the stored telephone number and verification code, and then using the telephone number and the identifier to generate an authentication string, and sending the authentication string to the sender via the Internet (A4), at the sender, receiving the authentication string from the server, and sending the email including said authentication string and said telephone number to the recipient via the Internet (A5), at the recipient, receiving the email, and forwarding the authentication string, the telephone number and the identifier of the received email content to said or another server (A6), and at the receiving server, receiving the authentication string, the telephone number and the identifier, generating an authentication string using the received telephone number and identifier, confirming that the received authentication string is the same as the generated authentication string, and sending confirmation to the recipient (A7).

    Method and apparatus for email communication
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    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for email communication 有权
    电子邮件通信的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US08255983B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-08-28

    申请号:US12414957

    申请日:2009-03-31

    IPC分类号: H04L29/06

    摘要: A method of operating a user terminal connected to the Internet comprises: prior to sending an email from the user terminal to a recipient, sending an identifier of the email content and a telephone number to a server; receiving a verification code from the server via the Internet; receiving an authentication string from the server via the Internet; including the authentication string and the telephone number in the email; and sending the email to the recipient.

    摘要翻译: 操作连接到因特网的用户终端的方法包括:在从用户终端向接收者发送电子邮件之前,向服务器发送电子邮件内容的标识符和电话号码; 通过因特网从服务器接收验证码; 通过因特网从服务器接收认证字符串; 包括电子邮件中的认证字符串和电话号码; 并将电子邮件发送给收件人。