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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2010
Anirban Dasgupta, Albany, CA (US);
Kilian Quirin Weinberger, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yehuda Koren, Zichron Yaakov, IL;
Anirban Dasgupta, Albany, CA (US);
Kilian Quirin Weinberger, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yehuda Koren, Zichron Yaakov, IL;
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
In accordance with one aspect, methods and apparatus facilitate the filtering of unsolicited bulk electronic mail (email) sent from spammers. A plurality of recipient patterns for a plurality of emails from known spammers is logged. A plurality of recipient patterns for a plurality of emails from known non-spammers is also logged. A probabilistic model for predicting whether an unknown sender identity is a spammer is generated or modified based on the logged recipient patterns for the emails from known spammers and known non-spammers.