Patent ID: 9338026
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for controlling transmission of messages in a data communication network, the method comprising: using a store and forward relay implemented as programmed computer hardware to receive messages intended for respective recipients thereof; selecting computer readable formulations of comparisons to apply to the received messages, wherein a selected comparison applied to a message is based on one or more attributes of the message, and a first comparison selected for a first message is different from a second comparison selected for a second message; delaying delivery of at least some of the received messages, the delay being based on whether a comparison score associated with a received message is beyond a threshold; and after a delay period, applying a filtering policy to the delayed messages and based on one or more results thereof delivering at least one, but not another, of the delayed messages to its intended recipient, wherein the applying of the filtering policy to a delayed message is triggered by a download to the store and forward relay of new executable code to update one or more computer readable formulations of comparisons.