Intelligent prevention of spam emails at share sites
AssigneeShutterfly, Inc.
InventorSyed Saleem Javid Brahmanapalli
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method for preventing spam emails from a share site includes providing a network-based computer system to enable users to set up share sites and to send emails from the share sites, detecting potential spam emails based on one or more spam detection rules, identifying false positive emails in the potential spam emails based on one or more false alarm reduction rules, removing false positive emails from the potential spam emails to produce a list of verified spam emails, identifying a sender of the list of verified spam emails as a spammer, and prohibiting the spammer from sending emails from one or more share sites owned spammer.
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A computer-implemented method for preventing spam emails from a share site, comprising:
- providing a network-based computer system to enable users to set up share sites and to send emails from the share sites;
- storing one or more spam detection rules in the network-based computer system;
- detecting potential spam emails based on the one or more spam detection rules;
- storing one or more false alarm reduction rules in the network-based computer system;
- identifying false positive emails in the potential spam emails based on the one or more false alarm reduction rules;
- removing false positive emails from the potential spam emails to produce a list of verified spam emails;
- identifying a sender of the list of verified spam emails as a spammer;
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- prohibiting the spammer from sending emails from one or more share sites owned spammer.
A network-based computer system for facilitating share sites, comprising:
- one or more servers configured to enable users to set up share sites and to send emails from the share sites;
- a spam intelligence module configured to store one or more spam detection rules and to detect potential spam emails based on the one or more spam detection rules, wherein the spam intelligence module configured to store one or more false alarm reduction rules and to identify false positive emails in the potential spam emails based on the one or more false alarm reduction rules, wherein the false positive emails are removed from the potential spam emails to produce a list of verified spam emails;
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- a spam control module configured to identify a sender of the list of verified spam emails as a spammer and to prohibit the spammer from sending emails from one or more share sites owned spammer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.