Patent Document ID: 9412096
Application ID: 13537624

Base Claim:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a logic circuit; and spam filtering logic operative on the logic circuit to: detect a country of origin for an e-mail message to a recipient; detect a language of the e-mail message; assign a first score to the message according to a country frequency, wherein the country frequency indicates a frequency with which the recipient communicates with a country of origin by e-mail; assign a second score to the message according to a language frequency, wherein the language frequency indicates a frequency with which the recipient communicates in a language by e-mail; and filter the e-mail message according to the first score and the second score.

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Claim 2:
2. The apparatus of claim 1 , comprising a history component operative on the logic circuit to store a profile for a recipient including data about a country of origin and a language each time an e-mail message is sent, read or deleted.