PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16120984
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["709", "206000"]

Abstract:
An internet service provider (ISP) is configured to analyze a subscriber's sent e-mail packets to determine a subscriber identity associated with the e-mail packets. A database is then queried to determine a current sending rate of e-mails by the subscriber. A sending rate above an allowed threshold causes the upstream transmission of the e-mail packets to be blocked by injecting connection destroying packets. A subscriber remains blocked from upstream transmission of e-mails until the sending rate as determined by the ISP drops below a second, more stringent threshold. This automatic process is also accompanied by automated messaging to the subscriber with information as to the measures taken and remedial options.

Claim (Index 16):
A system, comprising:\n at least one electronic mail processing apparatus comprising: a memory that stores at least one database; and at least one query engine coupled to a processor that executes one or more queries on said at least one database; wherein said electronic mail processing system apparatus receives an electronic mail message from one or more subscribers; wherein said query engine executes a query on said at least one database to determine a subscriber identity associated with said electronic mail message; when the subscriber has attempted to transmit a predefined number of email messages over a predefined period of time, the subscriber is blocked from being able to send an electronic mail message via an injection of a blocking packet into an electronic mail data stream, which stops the electronic mail messages from being sent, wherein the blocking packet mimics a subscriber packet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72464
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15683600', '15084302', '14673527', '14211399', '12004634']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3006285052905535
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5359398833721756
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3241596430987157
- Mean Citation Score: 376.647372
- Max Citation Score: 377.84595
- Similarity Product: 328.53688884871605

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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