Messaging system having message filtering and access control
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1. A method for filtering electronic messages, comprising:
- examining a first electronic message from a sender to a supervised client, said supervised client supervised by a supervisory client;
determining whether the sender has been approved by said supervisory client to send electronic messages to the supervised client, said supervisory client having a different address than said supervised client; and
preventing receipt of the first electronic message by the supervised client if the sender has not been approved by the supervisory client.
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An electronic message system provides message filtering for allowing a supervisory user, e.g., a parent, to control the flow of messages to other users, such as a child. E-mail messages and/or instant messages from already approved senders are allowed to pass directly to the child'"'"'s account. Messages from unapproved senders are forwarded to the parent'"'"'s account for deletion or approval to forward to the child and/or prospective sender approval.
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1. A method for filtering electronic messages, comprising:
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examining a first electronic message from a sender to a supervised client, said supervised client supervised by a supervisory client;
determining whether the sender has been approved by said supervisory client to send electronic messages to the supervised client, said supervisory client having a different address than said supervised client; and
preventing receipt of the first electronic message by the supervised client if the sender has not been approved by the supervisory client. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method for filtering E-mail messages, comprising:
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examining a first E-mail message sent by a sender and addressed to a first E-mail client;
determining whether the sender has been approved to send messages to the first E-mail client by a second E-mail client, said first E-mail client having a different address than said second E-mail client;
processing the first E-mail message by the second E-mail client to enable message approval and/or sender approval; and
forwarding the first E-mail message to the first E-mail client upon approval of the first E-mail message. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method for approving E-mail messages, comprising:
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identifying a sender of an E-mail message to a first client;
determining whether the E-mail message is from a sender contained in a control list;
forwarding the E-mail message to a second client, said second client having a different address than said first client, if the sender is not in the control list;
enabling a second client to review the E-mail message;
enabling the second client to approve the E-mail message and/or add the sender to the control list; and
forwarding the E-mail message to the first client. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. An E-mail filtering system, comprising:
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a first account associated with a first user having a first filter coupled to a control list for determining whether incoming E-mail messages are from senders contained in the control list; and
a second account having a different address than said first account, said second account associated with a second user having a second filter for determining whether incoming messages were forwarded from the first account, wherein forwarded messages and/or senders approved by the second user are forwarded to the first account for message access by the first user and for addition of the approved senders to the control list. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22)
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