Patent ID: 9350689
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of transmitting an encoded message from a computing device to a message recipient device, the message comprising a message header and a message body, the message header comprising a plurality of header fields, the method comprising: the computing device inserting original content of one or more header fields to be protected into the message body prior to transmission of the message to the message recipient device; modifying the one or more header fields to be protected to include, instead of the original content, one or more respective text notices that indicate that the original content is protected, thereby generating a modified message header; encoding the message body which includes the original content of the one or more header fields to be protected; and after encoding the message body, transmitting the message comprising the modified message header and the encoded message body to the message recipient device, such that when the message is received and processed by the message recipient device, the processing including decoding of the encoded message body, the original content of the one or more header fields to be protected is extracted from the decoded message body and inserted back into the one or more header fields of the message header, and when the message is displayed in a user interface of the message recipient device, the user interface is displayed with indicia indicating that the one or more header fields to be protected in the message header have been protected.