US 11,863,504 B2
Communication with service providers using disposable email accounts
Mohit Goenka, Santa Clara, CA (US); Ashish Khushal Dharamshi, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Nikita Varma, Milpitas, CA (US); and Gnanavel Shanmugam, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to Yahoo Assets LLC, New York, NY (US)
Filed by Yahoo Assets LLC, Dulles, VA (US)
Filed on Sep. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/902,346.
Application 17/902,346 is a continuation of application No. 16/215,721, filed on Dec. 11, 2018, granted, now 11,438,284.
Prior Publication US 2022/0417188 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 51/04 (2022.01); H04L 67/306 (2022.01); H04L 67/52 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 51/04 (2013.01) [H04L 67/306 (2013.01); H04L 67/52 (2022.05)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by a communication system, the method comprising:
receiving a first email from a first email account, wherein the first email comprises an indication of a first email address of the first email account;
determining a requested service based upon the first email;
determining a location associated with the first email account;
determining a set of service providers corresponding to the requested service based upon the requested service determined based upon the first email and the location, wherein the determining the set of service providers comprises selecting a first service provider, for inclusion in the set of service providers, from a database of service providers based upon:
a determination that at least one service associated with the first service provider at least one of matches or is related to the requested service determined based upon the first email; and
a determination that the first service provider is within a threshold distance from the location; and
responsive to the first email, automatically and without user intervention:
generating a first disposable email address (DEA), corresponding to the first email account, for one or more communications corresponding to the requested service determined based upon the first email;
generating a second email based upon (i) the first DEA and (ii) the first email received from the first email account and used to determine the requested service, wherein the generating the second email comprises including, in the second email, an indication of the first DEA as a sender of the second email; and
responsive to generating the second email, transmitting the second email to a set of email accounts comprising a second email account of the first service provider, wherein each email account of the set of email accounts is for a service provider selected for inclusion in the set of service providers corresponding to the requested service.