Patent Document ID: 7809796
Application ID: 11696851

Base Claim:
1. A method, comprising the computer-implemented steps of: receiving an electronic mail message that comprises one or more hyperlinks; determining sender information that identifies a sender of the electronic mail message; creating and storing a record that associates the sender information with each of the one or more hyperlinks; receiving a request to access a specified hyperlink among the one or more hyperlinks; retrieving, based on the specified hyperlink, the record; retrieving, based on the sender information associated with the specified hyperlink, sender reputation information associated with the sender; determining, based on the sender reputation information, a particular action among a plurality of allowed actions; issuing a network request to access the specified hyperlink only when the particular action is allowing user access to the specified hyperlink.

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Claim 7:
7. A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the sender reputation information is retrieved by providing the sender information in a request to an external sender reputation database.