MESSAGE CHALLENGE RESPONSE

Patent №

US 8,732,256

Granted

2014-05-20

Filed 2013

Owner

MAILFRONTIER, INC.

+2 more

Lab

AI components

3

nlp · speech · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13787693

A system and method are disclosed for registering a email sender for the purpose of sending an email message to an email receiver including receiving a challenge message wherein the challenge message includes a machine answerable question; processing the challenge message to determine that it is a challenge message sent for the purpose of authorizing delivery of the email message; analyzing the question to determine a valid response to the challenge message; and sending the valid response that includes the answer wherein a nontrivial amount of resources are required to send the valid response.

Natural languageSpeechPlanningH04L 51/212G06Q 10/107H04L 63/1441

AI classification

Planning1.00
Natural language0.99
Speech0.50
AI hardware0.35
Knowledge representation0.10
Machine learning0.00
Vision0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

MAILFRONTIER, INC.

assignment · 312960324

SONICWALL, INC.

assignment · 312960357

PSM MERGER SUB (DELAWARE), INC. C/O THOMA BRAVO, LLC

merger · 312960513

Assignors

OLIVER, JONATHAN J., WILSON, BRIAN K., UYEDA, DAMON K., EIKENBERRY, SCOTT D., KOBLAS, DAVID A., NUFIRE, TIM

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

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