US 12,143,399 B2
Email certification system
Yuh-shen Song, Porter Ranch, CA (US); Catherine Lew, Porter Ranch, CA (US); Alexander Song, Porter Ranch, CA (US); and Victoria Song, Porter Ranch, CA (US)
Assigned to APEX TECHLINK, INC., Glendale, CA (US)
Filed by Yuh-shen Song, Porter Ranch, CA (US); Catherine Lew, Porter Ranch, CA (US); Alexander Song, Porter Ranch, CA (US); and Victoria Song, Porter Ranch, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/367,062.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/134,087, filed on Jan. 5, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0217154 A1, Jul. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 51/234 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/12 (2013.01) [H04L 51/234 (2022.05); H04L 63/1483 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An email certification apparatus, comprising:
an email receiver module configured to receive an email with a sender email address of an email sender and a recipient email address of an email recipient;
a first data storage module configured to store a first device address of a first device associated with the email sender, the first data storage module identified by a first identifier transformed from the sender email address, the first device address used to contact the email sender;
a second data storage module configured to store a second device address of a second device associated with the email recipient, the second data storage module identified by a second identifier transformed from the recipient email address, the second device address used to contact the email recipient;
a control and communication module configured to transform the sender email address into the first identifier to instruct the first storage module to conduct a first search based on the sender email address and transform the recipient email address into the second identifier to instruct the second storage module to conduct a second search based on the recipient email address, the first search producing the first device address and the second search producing the second device address; and
an email transmitter module configured to transmit, to the email recipient, the email with an email certification code that is accessible by the email recipient in accordance with the email sender confirming the validity of the email via a message that is different than the email, the email certification code being used by the email recipient to determine an identity of a sender of the email.