Abstract

BACKGROUND
The problem of spam in established communication tech nologies, such as electronic mail, is well-recognized. Spam may include unsolicited messages sent by a computer over a network to a large number of recipients. Spam includes unso licited commercial messages, but spam has come to be under stood more broadly to additionally include unsolicited mes sages sent to a large number of recipients, and/or to a targeted user or targeted domain, for malicious, disruptive, or abusive purposes, regardless of commercial content. For example, a spammer might send messages in bulk to a particular domain to exhaust its resources.
However, a sender of a large number of messages might not be considered a spammer. For example, an educational, finan cial institution, health institution, or the like, might send a large number of messages to its alumni, members, or the like. Similarly, known and/or …

Date

December 7, 2010

Authors

J Choi, J Pujara, VT Ramarao, K Wei

Inventors

Jaesik Choi, Jay Pujara, Vishwanth Tumkur Ramarao, Ke Wei

Patent_office

US

Patent_number

7849146

Application_number

12035371