SEMANTIC QUALIFICATION AND CONTEXTUALIZATION OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES

摘要

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