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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2006
Jerome R. Bellegarda, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Devang Naik, San Jose, CA (US);
Kim E. A. Silverman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jerome R. Bellegarda, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Devang Naik, San Jose, CA (US);
Kim E. A. Silverman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for filtering messages comprising determining a first semantic anchor corresponding to a first group of messages, for example, legitimate messages and a second semantic anchor corresponding to a second group of messages, for example, unsolicited messages. Determining a vector corresponding to an incoming message; comparing the vector corresponding to the incoming message with at least one of the first semantic anchor and the second semantic anchor to obtain a first comparison value and a second comparison value; and filtering the incoming message based on the first comparison value and the second comparison value.