US Patent 7930351 Identifying undesired email messages having attachments

Patent 7930351 was granted and assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I on April, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Patent

Patent attributes

Current Assignee

AT&T Intellectual Property I

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

79303510

Patent Inventor Names

W. Todd Daniell0

Dale W. Malik0

Date of Patent

April 19, 2011

Patent Application Number

106856560

Date Filed

October 14, 2003

Patent Primary Examiner

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Yasin Barqadle

Patent abstract

Several embodiments, among others, provided in the present disclosure provide for tokenizing portions of an email message, which previously were not tokenized. The tokenizing of these portions generates tokens that are representative of these portions. The generated tokens are used to determine whether or not the email message is spam. In some embodiments, the tokenized portions may include attachments in email messages. In other embodiments, the tokenized portions may include a simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP) email address and a domain name corresponding to the SMTP email address.