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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2018

Filed:

Jun. 29, 2012
Applicants:

Clinton Syrowitz, Bellevue, WA (US);

Mauktik Gandhi, Redmond, WA (US);

Ashish Mishra, Seattle, WA (US);

Manivannan Sundaram, Bothell, WA (US);

Terence Zink, Kirkland, WA (US);

Inventors:

Clinton Syrowitz, Bellevue, WA (US);

Mauktik Gandhi, Redmond, WA (US);

Ashish Mishra, Seattle, WA (US);

Manivannan Sundaram, Bothell, WA (US);

Terence Zink, Kirkland, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/12 (2013.01); G06Q 10/107 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques to select and prioritize the application of spam filtering rules in a way that reduces processing time may include receiving an email message for a recipient at a spam filter and extracting email characteristics from the message. Global filtering rule statistics and a profile for the recipient may be retrieved. The technique may include selecting a subset of rules from a set of filtering rules according to the email characteristics, the global filtering rule statistics, and/or the recipient characteristics. The subset of rules may be prioritized and applied to the message from highest priority to lowest until a determination of whether the message is spam is reached. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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