US 2010/0077052 A1 · METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOGNIZING DESIRED EMAIL

Abstract

A system and method for recognizing an incoming email as a desired email examines outgoing email messages to arrange the email into fragments for which representations are created and stored. When an incoming message is received, the message is arranged into fragments for which representations are created. The representations of the incoming message are compared to the stored representations and if the matches between stored representations and the representations of the incoming message meet a predefined threshold test, the incoming message is recognized as being desirable. An incoming email message which has been recognized as being desirable can be subjected to a lesser examination to recognize a SPAM message, or to no further examination to recognize a SPAM message.

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Dependent claims

A method of recognizing an incoming email message as being desired, comprising the steps of:

(i) arranging the contents of an outgoing email message into at least one message fragment;
(ii) for each message fragment creating a representation of at least a portion of the contents of the fragment;
(iii) storing each created representation;
(iv) arranging the contents of an incoming email message into at least one message fragment;
(v) for at least one message fragment of the incoming message creating a representation of at least a portion of the contents of the fragment;
(vi) comparing each representation of a fragment created in step (v) to the stored representations created in step (ii) to identify matches therebetween;
and
(vii) identifying the incoming email message as being desired if the matches identified meet a pre-defined threshold test.

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Method and system for recognizing desired email

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Method and system for recognizing desired email

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Abstract

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