Mitigating address book weaknesses that permit the sending of e-mail to wrong addresses

US7774421B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Oded Dubovsky · Haifa, IL
• Itzhack Goldberg · Hadera, IL
• Boaz Mizrachi · Haifa, IL

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 30, 2008
• Grant date: Aug 10, 2010
• Expiry date: Jan 28, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/107
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A computer-implemented method for mitigating address book weaknesses that permit sending of e-mail to wrong addresses includes determining prior to sending an e-mail message whether one of a plurality of recipients of an e-mail message should receive the e-mail message, the determining prior to sending the e-mail message including analyzing history information of a sender of the e-mail message to determine whether the one of the plurality of recipients is ordinarily connected with the plurality of recipients and whether the one of the plurality of recipients is ordinarily connected with a subject of the e-mail message, the analyzing history information including comparing the plurality of recipients to a database indicative of recipients that received e-mail from the sender, and, responsive to the history information, determining whether the one of the plurality of recipients is one of a new recipient and an ordinary recipient, and presenting the determining to the sender.