Patent Document ID: 8931094
Application ID: 13848529

Base Claim:
1. A method for monitoring transmission of email through a computer system, said computer system comprising a server and one or more clients having an email account, the method comprising: (a) gathering statistics relating to transmission behavior of prior emails relating to a first email account on said computer system; (b) generating a profile relating to the transmission behavior of email relating to said first email account based on said statistics, wherein generating a profile comprises grouping email addresses into one or more cliques based on the prior occurrence of email addresses within the same emails in a group of mails; and (c) determining if a violation of email security has occurred by comparing one or more select emails relating to said first email account to said profile.

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Claim 10:
10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein gathering statistics relating to the transmission behavior of prior emails further comprises assigning a unique identifier to each email sent to said first email account.