Sonicwall Inc.

Dell Software Inc.

Rovi Guides, Inc.

Mailfrontier, Inc. a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Sonicwall, Inc.

Animas Corporation

Animas Technologies, LLC

Mailfrontier, Inc

Cyngnus, Inc.

Jonathan J Oliver

David A Koblas

Brian K Wilson

Scott D Eikenberry

Jennifer Rihn

Tim Nufire

Damon K Uyeda

Gleb Budman

Wray Lindsay Buntine

Steven Waterhouse

Paul R Wieneke

Bryan Kim

George Roumeliotis

Scott Roy

Brian Kim

Andrew F Oliver

Timothy Christian Dunn

Ronald T Kurnik

Janet A Tamada

Russell O Potts

Charles W Wei

Matthew J Lesho

Steven Mayhew

Yalia Jayalakshmi

Eugene Koontz

Christine Drake

Maciej Dobrzynski

Rohan Baxter

Methods and systems are provided for streaming a media asset with an adaptive bitrate transcoder. A server receives, from a client device, a first request for a first portion of the plurality of portions to be transcoded at a first bitrate. The server then starts to transcode the plurality of portions at the requested first bitrate to generate a plurality of corresponding transcoded portions. The server updates a header of a transcoded portion to include: 1) a transcode latency value; and 2) a count value indicating a number of available pre-transcoded portions of the media asset at the time the first request was received. The server then transmits the transcoded portion to the client. The client device then determines a second bitrate based on the transcode latency value included in the header of the transcoded portion corresponding to the first portion.

Systems and methods for real-time adaptive bitrate transcoding and transmission of transcoded media

Systems and methods for processing a message are provided. A message may be processed to generate a message summary by removing or replacing certain words, phrases, sentences, punctuation, and the like. Message signatures based upon the message summary may be generated and stored in a signature database, which may be used to identify and/or classify spam messages. Subsequently received messages may be classified by signature and processed based on classification.

Method and apparatus for classifying electronic messages

Detecting infectious messages comprises performing an individual characteristic analysis of a message to determine whether the message is suspicious, determining whether a similar message has been noted previously in the event that the message is determined to be suspicious, classifying the message according to its individual characteristics and its similarity to the noted message in the event that a similar message has been noted previously.

Time zero classification of messages

Systems and methods for managing forwarded infectious messages are provided. Managing electronic message comprises receiving a message, forwarding the message, determining that the forwarded message is infectious after the message has been forwarded and preventing the infectious forwarded message from spreading.

Managing infectious forwarded messages

A system and method are disclosed for improving a statistical message classifier. A message may be tested with a machine classifier, wherein the machine classifier is capable of making a classification on the message. In the event the message is classifiable by the machine classifier, the statistical message classifier is updated according to the reliable classification made by the machine classifier. The message may also be tested with a first classifier. In the event that the message is not classifiable by the first classifier, it is tested with a second classifier, wherein the second classifier is capable of making a second classification. In the event that the message is classifiable by the second classifier, the statistical message classifier is updated according to the second classification.

Statistical message classifier

A technique for determining a boundary IP address is disclosed. The technique includes processing a header to extract candidate IP address, locating a gateway IP address, and selecting the boundary IP address based on the location of the gateway IP address.

Classifying a message based on likelihood of spoofing

A system and method are disclosed for routing a message through a plurality of test methods. The method includes: receiving a message; applying a first test method to the message; updating a state of the message based on the first test method; and determining a second test method to be applied to the message based on the state.

Efficient use of resources in message classification

A method of determining whether a guarded term is represented in a message comprises associating a portion of the message with the guarded term and evaluating a cost of the association. A method of generating a collection of guarded terms that represents an original term comprises generating a plurality of variations of the original term, evaluating similarity of each of the plurality of variations with respect to the original term and determining whether the similarity meets a predetermined criterion.

Approximate matching of strings for message filtering

A method of controlling distribution of content in a message sent by a message sender comprises receiving an indication from the message sender that the message is to be protected, identifying content in the message to be protected, adding the identified content to a database of protected content, and determining whether subsequently received content in a subsequently received message is associated with the identified content. A system for controlling distribution of content in a message sent by a message sender comprises a processor configured to receive an indication from the message sender that the message is to be protected, identify content in the message to be protected, add the identified content to a database of protected content, and determine whether subsequently received content in a subsequently received message is associated with the identified content.

Message distribution control

Signature generation using message summaries

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Jonathan J Oliver