METHOD AND APPARATUS TO BLOCK SPAM BASED ON SPAM REPORTS FROM A COMMUNITY OF USERS

Patent №

US 7,373,385

Granted

2008-05-13

Filed 2003

Owner

CLOUDMARK CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

4

nlp · kr · planning · evo

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10700911

In one embodiment, a method for operating a server is provided. The method comprises receiving a plurality of reports from a community of users, each report identifying an email message as spam or not spam; and determining if the email message is spam based on a number of the reports received from the community of users, and a trust factor associated with each user.

AI classification

Evolutionary computation0.99
Knowledge representation0.97
Natural language0.95
Planning0.74
AI hardware0.18
Machine learning0.01
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

CLOUDMARK CORPORATION

assignment · 153000979

Assignors

PRAKASH, VIPUL VED

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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