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Spam discrimination by generalized Ngram analysis of small header fields

US7555523B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateMay 6, 2004
Grant dateJun 30, 2009
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Expiry dateJul 11, 2026

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F2221/2101
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In the method of the present invention, spam is detected by extracting generalized Ngrams from a section of an e-mail (104). A spam manager (101) extracts (502) a sequence of characters from a section of an email. The spam manager (101) iterates (504) subsequences within the sequence. The spam manager (101) compares (506) subsequences to collections of spam-distinguishing subsequences to identify spam e-mail (104) messages.

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