PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16109525
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["709", "206000"]

Abstract:
An e-mail system is disclosed that overcomes many deficiencies of, but is backward compatible with, existing e-mail systems. Embodiments of the system may include various features, including but not limited to: (1) secure transfer of e-mail messages, without the need for users to replace existing e-mail clients or to change e-mail addresses; (2) tracking of all actions performed in connection with an e-mail transmission; (3) the ability for a recipient to view information about an e-mail message, optionally including information about how other addressees have responded to it, before deciding whether to retrieve the e-mail message; (4) the aggregation of entire e-mail conversations into a single threaded view; (5) the ability to include both private and public messages in a single e-mail communication; (6) sender control over downstream actions performed in connection with an e-mail message; (7) flexible control over cryptographic methods used to encrypt emails messages for storage.

Claim (Index 1):
A secure messaging system comprising:\n a server system that implements a secure messaging service; and a sender computing device; wherein the secure messaging system is configured to: intercept a message on the sender computing device when the message is composed and sent by a sender on the sender computing device; send the intercepted message in unencrypted form over a secure channel to the server system; receive the message in unencrypted form at the server system, the message being from the sender, the sender having an account with the secure messaging service, and being addressed to a recipient that does not have an account with the secure messaging service; store the message in encrypted form on the server system; generate, or cause a generation of, an introductory message after receiving of the message at the server system; transmit, or cause a transmission of, the introductory message to the recipient in unencrypted form via an SMTP protocol, said introductory message lacking at least some message content of the message, and including a link to a web client interface that provides functionality to authenticate the recipient and to securely retrieve the message from the server system and further including a message access key including a message identifier identifying the message and a service host identifier indicating to the recipient a network accessible address of the server system at which the message is stored, wherein the message access key does not serve as an encryption or decryption key; upon access of the introductory message by the recipient, programmatically receive recipient data including the message access key and a recipient address from the recipient; register the recipient with the secure messaging service by validating the message access key and the recipient address; and transmit the message in unencrypted form to the recipient via a secure communications protocol, based on the recipient data.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.79798
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11427912', '14135885', '15415752', '15793796', '15989017']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3836628894632126
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6195770991762172
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4072543104345131
- Mean Citation Score: 576.8155320000002
- Max Citation Score: 589.8511
- Similarity Product: 526.343127515018

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

Dataset: test