Patent ID: 8549018

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for predictive responses to internet object queries, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: receiving a query from a client to evaluate a first internet object, wherein the first internet object comprises an e-mail message and receiving the query to evaluate the first internet object comprises receiving a query to evaluate whether the first internet object constitutes spam; analyzing the query to predict a set of additional internet objects for which the client may subsequently request an evaluation by predicting a set of additional spam e-mail messages for which the client may subsequently request an evaluation by determining that the client is on a spam mailing list and that the set of additional spam e-mail messages may be bound for the client because the client is on the spam mailing list; transmitting an evaluation of the first internet object and of each additional internet object in the set of additional internet objects to the client.