Patent ID: 9654493
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving a filter request from a receiving customer to filter data packets sent from a sending customer to the receiving customer; receiving a dispute filed by the sending customer with respect to the filter request of the receiving customer after receiving the filter request from the receiving customer; logging one or more destination addresses of new data packets that are sent from the sending customer after receiving the dispute filed by the sending customer; determining whether the receiving customer is associated with any one of the one or more destination addresses of the new data packets that are sent from the sending customer; and determining whether to filter the data packets sent from the sending customer to the receiving customer or to ignore the filter request of the receiving customer based at least in part on a result of determining whether the receiving customer is associated with any one of the one or more destination addresses of the new data packets that are sent from the sending customer.