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US 7,925,706 B2Granted
Filtering electronic messages
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorRobert S. Glickstein
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Abstract
A method for handling electronic messages comprising: determining if a stored email addressed to a user includes an identifier; determining by an email server if an email addressed to a user includes an identifier; determining if the identifier is valid upon determining the email includes the identifier; and filtering the email upon determining either the email does not include the identifier or the identifier is not valid.
Claims13
A method comprising:
- determining whether an email addressed to a user includes an identifier, the identifier comprising a first string and a second string in a header of the email, the first string including a randomly generated number that identifies the user, and the second string including information identifying one or more filtering preferences that include at least:
- an indication whether the email should be filtered for SPAM;
- and
- format restriction to convert image attachments to the email into a specific format with specific dimensions;
- determining whether the identifier is valid upon determining the email includes the identifier by comparing the randomly generated number of the first string to at least one stored number;
- filtering the email for SPAM when the second string indicates that the email should be filtered for SPAM;
- and
- converting an image attachment of the email into the specific format with the specific dimensions identified by the second string.
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An email server, comprising:
- a processor;
- computer readable hardware storage media having stored thereon a mail handler as computer executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, initiate the mail handler to:
- determine if an email addressed to a user includes an identifier, the identifier comprising a first string and a second string in a header of the email, the first string including a randomly generated number that identifies the user, and the second string including information identifying one or more filtering preferences that include at least:
- an indication whether the email should be filtered for SPAM;
- and a format restriction to convert images of the email into a specific format with specific dimensions;
- determine whether the identifier is valid if the email includes the identifier by comparing the randomly generated number of the first string to at least one stored number;
- filter the email for SPAM when the second string indicates that the email should be filtered for SPAM;
- and convert an image attachment of the email into the specific format with the specific dimensions identified by the second string.
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Computer readable hardware storage media having stored thereon computer executable instructions, that, when executed by a processor, provide a method comprising:
- determining if an email addressed to a user includes an identifier, the identifier comprising a first string and a second string in a header of the email, the first string including a randomly generated number that identifies the user, and the second string including information identifying one or more filtering preferences that include at least:
- an indication whether the email should be filtered for SPAM;
- and a format restriction to convert images of the email into a specific format with specific dimensions;
- determining whether the identifier is valid if the email includes the identifier by comparing the randomly generated number of the first string to at least one stored number;
- filtering the email for SPAM when the second string indicates that the email should be filtered for SPAM;
- and converting an image attachment of the email into the specific format with the specific dimensions identified by the second string.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.