Patent ID: 8042181
Filing Date: 2011-10-18
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method to classify communications from messaging entities, the method comprising: initiating a plurality of interrogation engines, each interrogation engine implementing a message classification technique; initiating a corresponding plurality of index queues, each index queue associated with one interrogation engine; storing, in each index queue, indexes that index communications in a order in which its corresponding interrogation engine is to process the communications; receiving a communication from a messaging entity, wherein the communication is a legitimate e-mail message or spam or a virus or a communication that violates corporate policy; assigning an index to the communication; performing a load evaluation in response to receiving the communication; determining an additional interrogation engine should be initiated based on the load evaluation, and in response to the determination, creating a new index queue and initiating a new interrogation engine, wherein the new index queue is associated with the new interrogation engine; placing the index assigned to the communication into one or more index queues of the plurality of index queues and the new index queue; for each of the one or more index queues into which the index is assigned, using the corresponding interrogation engine and message classification technique to classify the communication;