System and method for managing publications
AssigneeAt&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P.
InventorLarry B. Pearson
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Abstract
A system and method of managing publications is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a Address Book System (ABS) having a controller element to adjust publication privileges of a publisher of a portion of an address book stored in the ABS responsive to detecting that a number of recipients of an invitation to subscribe to the portion of the address book have declined the invitation and the number of declined invitations exceeds a first threshold. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
Claims23
A computer-readable storage medium, comprising computer instructions for:
- receiving from a sender one or more requests to publish to a plurality of recipients a portion of a network address book of the sender;
- submitting to the plurality of recipients an invitation to subscribe to the portion of the network address book;
- comparing a first threshold to a number of declined invitations received from the plurality of recipients;
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- adjusting the sender's ability to publish a second portion of the network address book responsive to identifying the sender as a potential spammer when the number of declined invitations exceeds the first threshold.
An Address Book System (ABS), comprising a controller element to adjust publication privileges of a publisher of a portion of an address book stored in the ABS responsive to detecting that a number of recipients of an invitation to subscribe to the portion of the address book have declined the invitation and the number of declined invitations exceeds a first threshold.
A method, comprising modifying publication privileges of a sender responsive to a number of recipients declining an invitation to subscribe to a portion of content supplied by the sender, wherein the number of declined invitations exceeds a threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.