Patent ID: 7599993
Filing Date: 2009-10-06
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: examining a message received from a sender via a network to determine which identifying mechanisms are available for verifying an identity of the sender; determining that one or more available identifying mechanisms are deemed sufficient to verify the identity; in response to determining that one or more available identifying mechanisms are deemed sufficient to verify the identity, adding a description of the identity and a description of the one or more said available identifying mechanisms and an email address to a safe senders list; filtering the message by taking a form of a weight for adding an absolute reduction in a probability calculation assigned the message; processing the filtering of the message based on a form and a magnitude of the filtering by increasing or decreasing a probability that the message will be considered a spam; accessing the safe senders list which includes a combination of the email address with an available identifying mechanism, wherein the available identifying mechanism comprises a third-party certificate; and verifying the message from the combination of the email address signed with the third-party certificate, when there is a verification, the message is routed to an inbox; wherein the said available identifying mechanisms are deemed sufficient through comparison with the one or more identifying mechanisms identified in a list, wherein one or more of the available identifying mechanisms confirm the identity of the sender without utilizing the sender's address; and wherein the list references the combination of the one or more identifying mechanisms and another identifying mechanism.