COLLECTING, AGGREGATING, AND MANAGING INFORMATION RELATING TO ELECTRONIC MESSAGES

Patent №

US 7,653,695

Granted

2010-01-26

Filed 2005

Owner

IRONPORT SYSTEMS, INC.

+2 more

Lab

AI components

2

nlp · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11062320

A method and apparatus for managing information relating to electronic messages is provided. A first set of data related to one or more message senders is obtained from a first source, such as an email sever or email gateway. Each message sender has sent one or more electronic messages. A second set of data related to the one or more message senders is obtained from a second source. Message volume information that describes the messages sent by the one or more message senders for a period of time is determined based on the first set of data and the second set of data. The message volume information may be used to determine whether a particular message sent by a particular message sender is unsolicited. If a particular message is determined to be unsolicited, various actions may be performed on messages sent by the sender of the particular message.

AI classification

Planning1.00
Natural language0.51
AI hardware0.03
Knowledge representation0.01
Vision0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

IRONPORT SYSTEMS, INC.

assignment · 165950170

CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.

assignment · 279300154

CISCO IRONPORT SYSTEMS LLC

merger · 279310598

Assignors

FLURY, ANDREW, BANISTER, SCOTT, SPROSTS, CRAIG, PETERSON, PATRICK R., OLIVIER, MICHAEL V.

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

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