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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2004
Babak G. Jahromi, Bellevue, WA (US);
John F. Noss, Issaquah, WA (US);
Dhananjay M. Mahajan, Sammamish, WA (US);
Scott Christopher Seely, Bellevue, WA (US);
Daniel W. Roth, Bellevue, WA (US);
Travis John Muhlestein, Redmond, WA (US);
Babak G. Jahromi, Bellevue, WA (US);
John F. Noss, Issaquah, WA (US);
Dhananjay M. Mahajan, Sammamish, WA (US);
Scott Christopher Seely, Bellevue, WA (US);
Daniel W. Roth, Bellevue, WA (US);
Travis John Muhlestein, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for securely inspecting electronic messages. A computer system receives a control message that is passed through one or more receiving path components, positioned in a message receiving path, to a security component. The security component authenticates the received control message and passes the received control message to an inspection control component. The inspection control component activates message inspection in accordance with instructions contained in the received control message. When message inspection is activated, the computer system passes accessed messages to corresponding inspection components positioned in message paths (either receiving or sending) of the accessed message. The inspection component generates an inspection report (e.g., including a portion of contents of the accessed message) in accordance with instructions contained in a previously authenticated control message.