Patent ID: 7203749
Filing Date: 2007-04-10
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of filtering a plurality of contents of e-mail messages on a network, comprising: monitoring, by a program executed on a computer, said plurality of contents of e-mail messages transmitted on the network and determining whether one or more of said plurality of contents are regulated confidential contents satisfying a plurality of predefined regulatory policy requirements; filtering said regulated confidential contents by inspecting and determining whether transmission of said regulated confidential contents violates one or more of the plurality of regulatory policy requirements wherein the plurality of predefined regulatory policy requirements include at least one of forgetting to send a copy to a supervisor and forgetting to mark confidential on a confidential document; if said regulated confidential contents violates at least one of forgetting to send a copy to a supervisor and forgetting to mark confidential on a confidential document then: counting a number of times that said regulated confidential contents are transmitted; converting a loss caused by transmitting said regulated confidential contents into an incurred cost by establishing costs for respective types of the one or more of the plurality of regulatory policy requirements based on the counted number of times that said regulated confidential contents are transmitted and integrating costs depending on the types of the one or more of the plurality of regulatory policy requirements satisfied by the regulated confidential contents which have been transmitted within a predetermined period; and if said incurred cost is in excess of a preset permitted cost, inhibiting subsequent transmissions of said regulated confidential contents.