Qualcomm Incorporated

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

Mcafee, Inc.

Neeta Srivastava

Janell Paulson

Nitin Sasi Kumar

Adil Dhanani

Thomas Fong

Yi Zheng

Jeremy F Bennett

In an example, a system and method are provided for validating the sender of a message, such as an e-mail, text message, voice mail, network message, internet posting, or other electronic message. An authenticity server engine may first prescreen the message with anti-spam, anti-malware, and other filters. The screened message is then provided to the end user. If the end user deems the message suspicious, he may request additional validation. The authenticity server engine may then apply an example four-phase validation scheme, including analyzing header data for consistency with the message body, analyzing public data sources, analyzing private data sources, and receiving a result of an off-channel challenge to the sender. The server may then assign the message a sender validity confidence score.

Message sender authenticity validation

A mobile computing device is disclosed. The mobile computing device includes a location determination circuit and a processing circuit. The processing circuit determines a current location of the mobile computing device and a destination location. The processing circuit determines an expected travel time from the current location to the destination location, and disables continuous location tracking for a duration of time. The duration is determined based on the expected travel time. Once the duration of time has elapsed, the processing circuit enables continuous location tracking.

Location tracking for mobile computing device

A mobile computing device comprises a wireless transceiver and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to store a data set for a predetermined location, the data set comprising location data and a location name. The processing circuit is further configured to compare a current location to the location data, to compare an updated location to the location data at a time calculated based on heuristic data, and to generate a notification message based on the mobile computing device arriving at or near the predetermined location.

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Neeta Srivastava