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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:
Mar. 13, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2005
Applicants:
Ren Chin, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Cowings, El Cerrito, CA (US);
Sanford Jensen, Berkeley, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ren Chin, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Cowings, El Cerrito, CA (US);
Sanford Jensen, Berkeley, CA (US);
Assignee:
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and system for creating bulk filters are described. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving probe email messages indicative of spam, grouping similar probe email messages, and creating a bulk filter for each group having at least a predefined number of probe email messages without human interaction. The method further includes distributing the resulting bulk filters to clients for detection of bulk email messages at the clients.