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US 2011/0238770 A1Published application
Method and apparatus to screen electronic communications
AssigneeCloudmark, Inc.
InventorVipul V. Prakash
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Abstract
A method and an apparatus to screen electronic communications have been disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes extracting URLs from electronic communication and analyzing the URLs extracted to determine whether the electronic communication is of a first predetermined category. Other embodiments have been claimed and described.
Claims23
A method comprising:
- using one or more computer processors, extracting URLs from electronic communication;
- and
- analyzing the URLs extracted to determine whether the electronic communication is of a first predetermined category, generating one or more signatures using the URLs extracted.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that provides instructions that, when executed by a processor, will cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- extracting URLs from electronic communication;
- and
- analyzing the URLs extracted to determine whether the electronic communication is of a first predetermined category, said analyzing comprising reformatting the URLs, and generating one or more signatures using a length of the electronic communication and the URLs extracted.
A system comprising:
- a plurality of databases to store a plurality of predetermined signatures of a plurality of electronic communications of a first predetermined category;
- and
- a server, coupled to the plurality of databases, including:
- a memory device to store a plurality of instructions;
- and
- a processor, coupled to the memory device, to retrieve the plurality of instructions from the memory device and to perform operations in response to the plurality of instructions, the operations comprising:
- extracting URLs from electronic communication and generating one or more signatures using a length of the electronic communication and the URLs extracted;
- reformatting the URLs and generating one or more signatures using a length of the electronic communication and the URLs extracted, and comparing one or more of the one or more signatures generated against the plurality of predetermined signatures stored in the plurality of databases to determine whether the electronic communication is of the first predetermined category.
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