Method and system for filtering communication

• US 20070180034A1
• Filed: 02/02/2006
• Published: 08/02/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: John Charles, John Ditroia
• Original Assignee: John Charles, John Ditroia
• Inventors: Charles, John, DiTroia, John
• Application Number:
  US11/347,729
• Publication Number:
  US 20070180034A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking

Abstract

Receipt and review of unwanted e-mail messages is curtailed by requiring acceptable e-mail messages to include a special indicator specific to the recipient. The recipient system processes incoming messages to search for the specific indicator. Messages that include the specific indicator are provided to the recipient for review. Messages which do not include the indicator are placed in a “bulk” message directory.

Claims

1. A method for controlling reception of messages from unknown sender computers in an e-mail network, comprising:

a recipient computer transmitting predetermined data to a known sender computer;

the recipient computer receiving an e-mail message intended for the recipient;

the recipient computer determining whether the received e-mail message includes the predetermined data; and

the recipient computer permitting a message to move to a known sender e-mail storage location in response to detecting that the e-mail message includes the predetermined data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the recipient computer is facilitated by the logical combination of processes executing on more than one computer system.