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 19):
A method, comprising:\n blocking transmission of one or more packets into an internet service provider from a subscriber, wherein a sending rate profile indicates whether the subscriber is currently blocked from transmitting electronic mail messages based on determination whether the subscriber has attempted to transmit a predefined number of email messages over a predefined period of time; determining, via the sending rate profile, whether the subscriber is exceeding at least one threshold applied to the sending rate profile when said an electronic mail message is received from the subscriber; and blocking the subscriber from sending electronic mail messages by injecting a blocking packet into an electronic mail data stream, which stops the electronic mail messages from being sent, the blocking packet mimicking 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): 0.2997872832254582
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5363453805376517
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3234430929566775
- Mean Citation Score: 376.647372
- Max Citation Score: 377.84595
- Similarity Product: 361.94637820911714

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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