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US 2010/0306836 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 ifs 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.
Claims20
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.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.