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US 2004/0205135 A1Published application
Control and management of electronic messaging
AssigneeVeriSign, Inc.
InventorPhillip Martin Hallam-Baker
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Abstract
A method for controlling a message from a sender. A referee can evaluate a credential associated with a message to determine it's desirability to the intended recipient, and take an action based upon the results of the determination. A sender that includes a trusted component can send a credential with the message, and the message can be controlled without a referee.
Claims47
A method for controlling a message from a sender, the message having an intended recipient, including:
- receiving at a referee at least part of a credential that is associated with a message that was sent to an intended recipient;
- determining at the referee if the message is spam by evaluating the at least part of the credential;
- performing an action with respect to the message based upon the results of the evaluation.
A method for controlling messages, including:
- creating a tamper resistant velocity indicator for a message;
- sending the message velocity indicator to a recipient.
A system for controlling messages, including:
- a tamper-resistant processor;
- a tamper-resistant memory storing message control instructions that are adapted to be executed by said tamper-resistant processor to associate a credential with a message to be sent to an intended recipient.
A system for controlling messages, including:
- means for receiving a credential that is associated with a message;
- means for determining the desirability of the message to its intended recipient based upon an analysis of the credential.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.