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Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2008

Filed:

May. 28, 2004
Applicants:

Joshua T Goodman, Redmond, WA (US);

Robert L Rounthwaite, Fall City, WA (US);

Geoffrey J Hulten, Seattle, WA (US);

John a Deurbrouck, Redmond, WA (US);

Manav Mishra, Kirkland, WA (US);

Anthony P Penta, Bellevue, WA (US);

Inventors:

Joshua T Goodman, Redmond, WA (US);

Robert L Rounthwaite, Fall City, WA (US);

Geoffrey J Hulten, Seattle, WA (US);

John A Deurbrouck, Redmond, WA (US);

Manav Mishra, Kirkland, WA (US);

Anthony P Penta, Bellevue, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

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.


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