Patent ID: 8141132
Filing Date: 2012-03-20
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of determining an indication of an invalid request, the method comprising: a) receiving data at a first processing system, wherein the received data comprises electronic mail; b) comparing at least a portion of the received data to predetermined criteria at the first processing system, wherein the comparison occurs prior to the received data being accessed by a recipient of the data; c) determining an indication of an invalid request included in the data at the first processing system; d) generating, at the first processing system, a notification in accordance with the determined indication of the invalid request; e) transmitting the data and the notification from the first processing system to a second processing system, wherein the notification indicates the determined indication of the invalid request; f) transmitting, from the second processing system, a status level of the invalid request to the first processing system, wherein the status level indicates an amount of notifications that have been previously received by the second processing system from at least one processing system that is different from the first processing system; g) determining if the status level of the invalid request satisfies a threshold; h) upon determining that the status level of the invalid request does not satisfy the threshold, blocking access to the data and storing the data and the notification in a database, wherein the notification is sent to the recipient of the data upon the status level satisfying the threshold.