WO2004081734A3 - Method for filtering e-mail messages - Google Patents

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WO2004081734A3
WO2004081734A3 PCT/US2004/007034 US2004007034W WO2004081734A3 WO 2004081734 A3 WO2004081734 A3 WO 2004081734A3 US 2004007034 W US2004007034 W US 2004007034W WO 2004081734 A3 WO2004081734 A3 WO 2004081734A3
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Steven T Kirsch
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Propel Software Corp
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Priority claimed from US10/683,598 external-priority patent/US7206814B2/en
Priority claimed from US10/683,599 external-priority patent/US20050091319A1/en
Priority claimed from US10/685,090 external-priority patent/US20050091320A1/en
Priority claimed from US10/683,951 external-priority patent/US20050080857A1/en
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Priority to EP04718564A priority Critical patent/EP1604293A2/en
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L51/00—User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
    • H04L51/21—Monitoring or handling of messages
    • H04L51/212—Monitoring or handling of messages using filtering or selective blocking

Abstract

An e-mail filtering method and system that categorize received e-mail messages (12) based on information about the origin (10) contained in the message header and the SMTP session used to send the message. This data and other information about the message is then sent by each member of an e-mail network (14) to one or more central databases (66) which stores the information and compiles statistics about e-mails sent from the origin to indicate the likelihood that the e-mail is unsolicited and determine the reputation of the origin. A good reputation indicates that the sender sends solicited messages while a bad reputation indicates that the sender sends unsolicited e-mail messages. Information from the central database is then sent to recipients (20) in order to determine the likelihood that a received e-mail message is spam.
PCT/US2004/007034 2003-03-07 2004-03-08 Method for filtering e-mail messages WO2004081734A2 (en)

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US10/384,278 2003-03-07
US10/384,278 US20040177120A1 (en) 2003-03-07 2003-03-07 Method for filtering e-mail messages
US10/683,598 2003-10-09
US10/683,951 2003-10-09
US10/682,941 2003-10-09
US10/683,599 2003-10-09
US10/682,941 US7366761B2 (en) 2003-10-09 2003-10-09 Method for creating a whitelist for processing e-mails
US10/683,598 US7206814B2 (en) 2003-10-09 2003-10-09 Method and system for categorizing and processing e-mails
US10/685,090 2003-10-09
US10/683,599 US20050091319A1 (en) 2003-10-09 2003-10-09 Database for receiving, storing and compiling information about email messages
US10/685,090 US20050091320A1 (en) 2003-10-09 2003-10-09 Method and system for categorizing and processing e-mails
US10/683,951 US20050080857A1 (en) 2003-10-09 2003-10-09 Method and system for categorizing and processing e-mails

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