METHOD OF, AND SYSTEM FOR, SCANNING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS WHICH CONTAIN LINKS TO EXTERNAL OBJECTS

Patent №

US 7,404,209

Granted

2008-07-22

Filed 2004

Owner

MESSAGELABS LIMITED

+1 more

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10500959

A content scanner for electronic documents such as email scans objects which are the target of hyperlinks within the document. If they are determined to be acceptable, a copy of the object is attached to the document and the link is replaced by one pointing to the copied object.

PlanningG06Q 10/107G06F 16/9566

AI classification

Planning1.00
Natural language0.44
Vision0.24
AI hardware0.08
Knowledge representation0.05
Evolutionary computation0.01
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

MESSAGELABS LIMITED

assignment · 159460794

SYMANTEC CORPORATION

assignment · 228860771

Assignors

SHIPP, ALEXANDER

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

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