Patent ID: 6957259
Filing Date: 2005-10-18
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for regulating e-mail, comprising: maintaining profile information for a plurality of registered e-mail sources that have registered to forward e-mail to a destination, said profile information comprising for each registered e-mail source statistics regarding e-mails previously received from the registered e-mail source; maintaining category information for a plurality of e-mail source categories, said category information comprising for each e-mail source category statistics regarding e-mails previously received from the e-mail source category; receiving an e-mail; identifying an e-mail source for the e-mail; determining from the profile information if the e-mail source is a registered source; if the e-mail source is a registered source, if the e-mail source is not a registered source, identifying one of said plurality of e-mail source categories,