Patent ID: 7359941
Filing Date: 2008-04-15
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for managing unwanted email messages in a data processing system, the method comprising: providing an interface for a user to select members of a reviewing group of users; collecting input from each member of the reviewing group of users as to whether a particular email message is an unwanted email message; constructing a filter from a collective input of the reviewing group of users for the user, wherein the filter contains input from a set of users of the reviewing group of users, wherein the set of users is selected by the user; and filtering incoming email messages using the filter, wherein a selected email message identified by one member in the reviewing group of users is unforwarded to the user, wherein each user in the reviewing group of users constructs a personalized filter based on selecting users in the set of users to form a set of filters, wherein each filter in the set of filters (i) contains different users from the reviewing group of users and (ii) is a user filter associated with one of the selected users.