Techniques to filter electronic mail based on language and country of origin
US9412096B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 29, 2012 |
| Grant date | Aug 9, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 6, 2033 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L51/212
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Techniques to detect spam using language and a country of origin of an e-mail may include receiving an e-mail message for a recipient, detecting a country of origin for the e-mail message and detecting a language of the e-mail message. A technique may further include determining a country frequency with which the recipient communicates with the country of origin by e-mail, and a language frequency with which the recipient communicates in the language by e-mail. A technique may assign a first score to the message according to the country frequency, and a second score to the message according to the language frequency. The scores may used to determine whether the e-mail message is spam. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
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