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John Deurbrouck

Roberto Anthony Franco

Caleb Geoffrey Baker

Danhua Zhu

Colin Leslie Dellow

Joshua T Goodman

Robert L Rounthwaite

Geoffrey John Hulten

Manav Mishra

Anthony Paul Penta

Described is a technology by which a plug-in (e.g., an ActiveX&#xae; control) instantiated by a web browser calls functions of a credential service to use a set of credential data (e.g., a card file) for logging into a website. If the credential service determines that a previously used card file for the website exists, a representation of that card file is displayed in the browser, and the data of that card file is used to obtain a token for logging in the user. If not found, an icon is presented instead, by which the user can select a user interface that allows selection of another card file that meets that meet the website's requirements.

Browser plug-in for secure credential submission

Disclosed are systems and methods that facilitate spam detection and prevention at least in part by building or training filters using advanced IP address and/or URL features in connection with machine learning techniques. A variety of advanced IP address related features can be generated from performing a reverse IP lookup. Similarly, many different advanced URL based features can be created from analyzing at least a portion of any one URL detected in a message.

Advanced URL and IP features

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