Controlling email propagation within a social network utilizing proximity restrictions
US9092759B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 29, 2010 |
| Grant date | Jul 28, 2015 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 21, 2032 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L51/52
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A message header of an email message can be identified. The message header can comprise of an exemption field which specifies one or more email addresses that is prohibited from receiving the email message. The sending email address can be associated with a sender node and the one or more email addresses is associated with a prohibited node. The sender node and the prohibited node can be arbitrarily linked within a network that is a social structure comprising of one or more individuals and organizations which can be connected by one or more specific type of interdependency. The network can be modeled as a graph which can be a mathematical structure modeling pairwise relations between nodes and edges. The email message can be conveyed to multiple email addresses except the one or more email address associated with the exemption field.
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