Electronic business postal system

摘要

An electronic business postal system collects, clears and delivers electronic business mail through a closed access, secure messaging system. A collection subsystem consists of access portals that are associated with secured system nodes. The access portals provide authenticated users access to the system to send and retrieve electronic business mail that includes postal system electronic delivery addresses, physical delivery addresses, or both. Secured message servers that are associated with the respective access portals process the electronic business mail into uniquely identified messages for delivery over the system nodes and also process received messages to provide the corresponding electronic business mail to the intended recipients through associated access portals. A delivery subsystem directs the messages through the system nodes associated with the senders' access portals to the system nodes associated with the recipients' access portals. A clearance subsystem confirms the integrity of both the messages and their delivery and ensures that each message is delivered once and intact.

主权项

1. An electronic postal business postal system comprising:
a network of secure system nodes having at least one processor and configured to communicate electronic business mailings, where each electronic business mailing include delivery address information having one or more of a user postal system electronic delivery address and a physical delivery address; and a delivery subsystem configured to:
enter one or more address registries,identify a destination node utilizing the user postal system electronic delivery address when either:
(1) the user postal electronic delivery address is included in the delivery address information, or(2) the physical delivery address can be associated with a corresponding user postal system electronic delivery address, oridentify the destination node utilizing a locality of the physical delivery address when either:
(1) the user postal electronic delivery address is not included in the delivery address information, or(2) the physical delivery address cannot be associated with the corresponding user postal system electronic delivery address, andprovide routing information to route the electronic business mailing message over the secure system nodes to the destination node as specified by the address registries.