Patent ID: 8769022

Claim:
A method for evaluating an outbound message comprising: receiving an outbound message from a messaging application, wherein the message comprises a first field element and a second field element; accessing a message evaluation rule established by an administrator and stored in a datastore, wherein: the message evaluation rule comprises a condition relating a specific data value of the first field element to a specific data value of the second field element; and the message evaluation rule is configured to filter outbound messages originated by each of a plurality of user devices based on the condition relating the specific data value of the first field element to the specific data value of the second field element; applying the message evaluation rule to the first field element and second field element of the outbound message; determining whether the condition of the message evaluation rule is satisfied; generating a display to alert a user when the condition of the message evaluation rule is satisfied; and sending the outbound message when the condition of the message evaluation rule is not satisfied.