Web based email control center

Abstract

Accessing web sites on which the user has an account and providing notification of changes at the site, and improved electronic mail management is provided, allowing all email to be collected and forwarded from a central site to other email addresses or allowing for the user to view the email at the central site. The user may assign individual email addresses to any number of uses, for example, an individual email address for use in communicating with a particular commercial web site.

1 . A method, comprising: 
 receiving at a central site a notification from a network site, the notification including an indicator corresponding to a user, the central site and the network site; and    processing the notification in accordance with the indicator.    
   
   
       2 . The method as recited in  claim 1 , wherein the notification is an email and the indicator is an email address of the email.  
   
   
       3 . The method as recited in  claim 1 , wherein the notification comprises status information sent to the central site in response to a user conducting a transaction while visiting the network site.  
   
   
       4 . The method as recited in  claim 1 , wherein the notification comprises status information sent to the central site in response to a detection of a predetermined event status at the network site that corresponds to the user.  
   
   
       5 . The method as recited in  claim 1 , wherein the processing comprises sorting the notification in accordance with the indicator.  
   
   
       6 . The method as recited in  claim 1 , wherein the processing comprises forwarding the notification to a forward email address.  
   
   
       7 . The method as recited in  claim 1 , wherein the processing comprises forwarding information corresponding to the notification to a forward email address.  
   
   
       8 . Forwarded information formed according to the method of  claim 7 .  
   
   
       9 . The method as recited in  claim 7 , wherein the information corresponding to the notification comprises a summary of the notification.  
   
   
       10 . The method as recited in  claim 7 , wherein the information corresponding to the notification comprises a hyperlink to the network site.  
   
   
       11 . The method as recited in  claim 7 , wherein the processing is conducted in accordance with predetermined user parameters.  
   
   
       12 . The method as recited in  claim 1 , wherein the processing comprises forwarding the notification to a forward email address in accordance with at least one of a delivery time parameter, a delivery date parameter, a frequency parameter, an immediate forward parameter or a number of email messages parameter.  
   
   
       13 . The method as recited in  claim 1 , wherein the processing comprises causing an alert corresponding to the notification to be sent to a user device of the user.  
   
   
       14 . The method as recited in  claim 1 , wherein the processing comprises causing a message window to be provided on a user device of the user, the message window including information corresponding to the notification.  
   
   
       15 . The method as recited in  claim 14 , wherein the causing a message window to be provided is conducted in accordance with receipt of a request from the user.  
   
   
       16 . The method as recited in  claim 14 , wherein the message window is a pop-up window.  
   
   
       17 . A system, comprising: 
 receiving means for receiving at a central site a notification from a network site, the notification including an indicator corresponding to a user, the central site and the network site; and    processing means coupled to the receiving means for processing the notification in accordance with the indicator.    
   
   
       18 . The system as recited in  claim 17 , wherein the processing comprises causing a message window to be provided on a user device of the user, the message window including information corresponding to the notification.  
   
   
       19 . A computer readable storage medium storing program code for causing a computer to perform the steps of: 
 receiving at a central site a notification from a network site, the notification including an indicator corresponding to a user, the central site and the network site; and    processing the notification in accordance with the indicator.    
   
   
       20 . A method, comprising: 
 associating an email address with a network site and a user;    receiving at least one user parameter for processing notifications that include the email address according to the email address;    receiving a notification including the email address; and    processing the notifications.