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Systems and methods for message threat management

US8069481B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJul 12, 2006
Grant dateNov 29, 2011
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Expiry dateFeb 14, 2029

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L63/0428
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The present invention is directed to systems and methods for detecting unsolicited and threatening communications and communicating threat information related thereto. Threat information is received from one or more sources; such sources can include external security databases and threat information data from one or more application and/or network layer security systems. The received threat information is reduced into a canonical form. Features are extracted from the reduced threat information; these features in conjuntion with configuration data such as goals are used to produce rules. In some embodiments, these rules are tested against one or more sets of test data and compared against the same or different goals; if one or more tests fail, the rules are refined until the tests succeed within an acceptable margin of error. The rules are then propagated to one or more application layer security systems.

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