Declassifying of suspicious messages
AssigneeSonicWALL, Inc.
InventorsBrian K. Wilson, Kwok H. Ng, Damon K. Uyeda, Scott D. Eikenberry, David A. Koblas
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Abstract
Handling a message comprises: classifying an incoming message for a recipient, storing the classified message and providing a notification to the recipient, wherein the notification includes summary information about the classified message and an interface that allows the recipient to operate on the classified message.
Claims9
A method for declassifying a suspicious message, the method comprising:
- receiving a message at a computing device, the computing device including a message filter application executable by the computing device;
- classifying the message as suspicious in response to a determination made through execution of the message filter application, the message intended for multiple recipients;
- generating a notification upon classification of the message as suspicious, the notification delivered to the multiple intended recipients of the message;
- receiving input from a recipient from the multiple intended recipients to declassify the suspicious message;
- selecting between the received input to declassify the message and the initial classification of the message as suspicious with respect to ultimate classification of the message, wherein the selection includes a determination as to whether the recipient providing the input is authorized to declassify the message;
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- processing the message in accordance with the ultimate classification of the message.
A computer-readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program, the program being executable by a computer to perform a method for declassifying a suspicious message, the method comprising:
- classifying a message as suspicious in response to a determination made through execution of a message filter application, the message intended for multiple recipients;
- generating a notification upon classification of the message as suspicious, the notification delivered to the multiple intended recipients of the message;
- receiving input from a recipient from the multiple intended recipients to declassify the suspicious message;
- selecting between the received input to declassify the message and the initial classification of the message as suspicious with respect to ultimate classification of the message, wherein the selection includes a determination as to whether the recipient providing the input is authorized to declassify the message;
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- processing the message in accordance with the ultimate classification of the message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.