Patent ID: 8782184
Filing Date: 2014-07-15
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An improved method for delivering a plurality of digital messages to recipients at a plurality of recipient domains, said method of the type that is used by a systems administrator and includes the steps of: (i) utilizing a plurality of operating techniques for sending said digital messages to each of said recipient domains, (ii) receiving and storing message delivery disposition information from said recipient domains for each of said digital messages received by one of said recipient domains, (iii) establishing a set of rules for yielding evaluations over a specified monitoring period for said message delivery disposition information, wherein said rules pertaining to parameters that include the rate of connection attempts made, time-out notifications received, spam block notifications received or delivery failure notifications received per said specified monitoring period, (iv) establishing reactive actions, in response to said evaluations over a specified period of time of said message delivery disposition information, to be taken to modify said operating techniques so as to maintain a targeted success rate for the delivery of said digital messages, wherein said actions include aborting, postponing, deferring and discontinuing said delivery of said digital messages, and (v) implementing, at the conclusion of one of said specified periods of time, said responsive actions in response to said evaluations over a specified period of time of said message delivery disposition information, the improvements to said method, which allow for an increase in said targeted success rate for the delivery of said digital messages, comprising the steps of: making real-time, at the instant said message delivery disposition information is received, multi-part assessments of said message delivery disposition information received from said recipient domains so as to determine in real-time whether a change in the operating techniques of said method is needed in order to ensure the continuation of a high success rate for the delivery of said digital messages, establishing a plurality of real-time, updating actions to change in real-time said operating techniques of said method, and wherein each of said real-time, updating actions corresponding to one of said parts of said real-time, multi-part assessments of said message delivery disposition information, and automatically, by utilizing a part of said real-time, multi-part assessments, implementing in real-time one of said plurality of real-time, updating actions so as to allow for an increase in said targeted success rate for the delivery of said digital messages.