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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2007
Greg Wittel, St. Louis, MO (US);
Yanyan Yang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Scott Panzer, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Steven Lewis, San Jose, CA (US);
Greg Wittel, St. Louis, MO (US);
Yanyan Yang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Scott Panzer, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Steven Lewis, San Jose, CA (US);
Proofpoint, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method are described for performing a correlative statistical analysis on a stream of email messages to identify new spam campaigns. For example, a method according to one embodiment of the invention comprises: extracting a series of patterns from a stream of incoming email messages; performing a correlation between the patterns to identify recurring patterns within the stream of email messages over a specified time period; dynamically updating a spam filtering engine to include a particular recurring pattern if the number of times the particular recurring pattern is detected within the specified time period is above a first specified threshold value.