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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. 29, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2012
Applicant:
Thomas Christian Wiltzius, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Inventor:
Thomas Christian Wiltzius, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06Q 30/00 (2012.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); H04M 15/00 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 30/018 (2013.01); G06Q 10/107 (2013.01); H04L 29/06346 (2013.01); H04M 15/8088 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method is disclosed for determining a reliability of an online vendor. One or more groups of undesirable emails (for example, spam) are analyzed to determine a prevalence of a known vendor. A reliability indicator may be determined for the vendor based on the identified prevalence of the vendor in the emails. The reliability indicator may then be provided to a remote application for use in assessing the reliability of the vendor.