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Abstract

A system and method for provisioning a communication address. A query server comprises a record of a sought party that associates a communications address with at least one other communications address. The record optionally comprises a set of permissions that establishes conditions under which a communications address may be disclosed to a seeking party. A query client provides a seeking party an interface to send a query to the query server comprising a known communications address of the sought party and to request disclosure of other communications addresses of the sought party. The query client additionally provides the seeking party an interface to convey permission information necessary to satisfy the conditions for release established by the sought party. The query client is adapted to invoke an application (for example, an e-mail client or a VoIP dialer) suited to a selected communications address disclosed by the query server. The query server may also provide proxy services to permit a seeking party to communicate with a sought party without disclosure of the sought party's communications addresses.

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First Claim