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US 11,438,292 B1Granted
Method and apparatus for filtering undesired email messages
AssigneeEMC IP Holding Company LLC
InventorsShankar Thangaraj, Jaganathan Kannan, Hung Dinh, Shirley Coleman
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Abstract
A method, including: receiving an email message, the email message being generated by a computing device; detecting whether a condition associated with the email message is satisfied, the condition including a condition for detecting whether the email message is sent by an automailer that is executing on the computing device; forwarding the email message to an email server, when the condition is satisfied; and discarding the email message, when the condition is not satisfied.
Claims8
A method, comprising:
- receiving an email message, the email message being generated by a computing device;
- detecting whether a condition associated with the email message is satisfied, the condition including a condition for detecting whether the email message is sent by an automailer that is executing on the computing device;
- forwarding the email message to an email server, when the condition is satisfied;
- and
- discarding the email message, when the condition is not satisfied,
- wherein detecting whether the condition is satisfied includes detecting a count of containers that are executed on the computing device and are configured to execute software for sending email messages, the condition is satisfied when the count does not meet a threshold, and the condition is not satisfied when the count meets the threshold.
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A method comprising:
- receiving an email message, the email message being generated by a computing device;
- detecting whether a condition associated with the email message is satisfied, the condition including a condition for detecting whether the email message is sent by an automailer that is executing on the computing device;
- forwarding the email message to an email server, when the condition is satisfied;
- and
- discarding the email message, when the condition is not satisfied,
- wherein detecting whether the condition is satisfied includes detecting a count of downloads, to the computing device, of software for sending email messages, the condition is satisfied when the count does not meet a threshold, and the condition is not satisfied when the count meets the threshold.
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A system, comprising:
- a memory;
- and
- at least one processor operatively coupled to the memory, the at least one processor being configured to perform the operations of:
- receiving an email message, the email message being generated by a computing device;
- detecting whether a condition associated with the email message is satisfied, the condition including a condition for detecting whether the email message is sent by an automailer that is executing on the computing device;
- forwarding the email message to an email server, when the condition is satisfied;
- and
- discarding the email message, when the condition is not satisfied,
- wherein detecting whether the condition is satisfied includes detecting a count of containers that are executed on the computing device and are configured to execute software for sending email messages, the condition is satisfied when the count does not meet a threshold, and the condition is not satisfied when the count meets the threshold.
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A system, comprising:
- a memory, and
- at least one processor operatively coupled to the memory, the at least one processor being configured to perform the operations of:
- receiving an email messages, the email message being generated by a computing device,
- detecting whether a condition associated with the email message is satisfied, the condition including a condition for detecting whether the email message is sent by an automailer that is executing on the computing device;
- forwarding the email message to an email server, when the condition is satisfied;
- and
- discarding the email message, when the condition is not satisfied,
- wherein detecting whether the condition is satisfied includes detecting a count of downloads, to the computing device, of software for sending email messages, the condition is satisfied when the count does not meet a threshold, and the condition is not satisfied when the count meets the threshold.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.