SEMANTIC QUALIFICATION AND CONTEXTUALIZATION OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES

摘要

A network environment including a messaging client endowed with semantic qualification logic in accordance with one embodiment of the invention. A sending device (104) is equipped with messaging client (106) to send and receive electronic messages to/from local and remote recipients. In one embodiment, local server (102) and remote server (112) may each represent a mail server. Accordingly, messaging client (106) may send an email message to local recipient via local server (102) and receiving device (110), and messaging client (106) may send an email message to a remote recipient via local server (102), remote server (112) and receiving device (114). In one embodiment, local server (102) may temporarily store email messages and forward the messages to designated recipients on behalf of sending device (104). In other embodiments, local server (102) may represent an HTTP server to route incoming and outgoing communication requests to and from sending device (104).