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US 2008/0178288 A1Published application
Detecting Image Spam
AssigneeSecure Computing Corporation
InventorsDmitri Alperovitch, Nick Black, Jeremy Gould, Paul Judge, Sven Krasser, Phyllis Adele Schneck, Yuchun Tang, Aarjav Jyotindra Neeta Trivedi, Lamar Lorenzo Willis, Weilai Yang, Jonathan Alexander Zdziarski
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Abstract
Methods and systems for operation upon one or more data processors for detecting image spam by detecting an image and analyzing the content of the image to determine whether the incoming communication comprises an unwanted communication.
Claims48
A computer implemented method operable to image spam, comprising the steps of:
- receiving an incoming communication;
- determining whether the communication contains one or more images;
- analyzing the content of the one or more images to determine whether the incoming communication comprises an unwanted communication;
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- performing an action on the communication based upon the result of analyzing the communication.
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An image spam detection system, comprising:
- a communications interface operable to receive a communication via a network;
- a detector operable to determine whether the communication comprises an image;
- an analyzer operable to analyze content associated with the image and to determine whether the image contains unwanted content;
- a communications control engine operable to determine an action to perform with respect to the communication based upon the results of the analyzer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.