Patent ID: 8112487

Claim:
A collaborative messaging system, comprising: a communications engine executing in a microprocessor, comprising: a plurality of message interrogators to process a message from a sender to a receiver, the message comprising message sender information and message content information, comprising: a message adjudicator configured to: compare message information from the sender with message information obtained by the message adjudicator, the obtained message information comprising message sender information, message receiver information, and message content information; modify the message information from the sender to a higher classification level of the message sender information from the sender and the obtained message sender information; further modify the message information to a higher classification level of the message content information from the sender and the obtained message content information; and filter the message content based upon the further modified message information and the obtained receiver information; and a message validator configured to allow or deny the message based upon the further modified message information and the obtained message receiver information.