Message Distribution Control

• US 20080104712A1
• Filed: 10/29/2007
• Published: 05/01/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Quest Software, Inc.
• Original Assignee: MailFrontier Incorporated (SonicWall Holdings Ltd.)
• Inventors: Budman, Gleb, Koontz, Eugene, Drake, Christine, Oliver, Andrew, Oliver, Jonathan
• Granted Patent: US 8,713,110 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/27
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3331 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6227 where protection concerns the structure of data, e.g. records, types, queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload

Abstract

A method of controlling distribution of content in a message sent by a message sender comprises receiving an indication from the message sender that the message is to be protected, identifying content in the message to be protected, adding the identified content to a database of protected content, and determining whether subsequently received content in a subsequently received message is associated with the identified content. A system for controlling distribution of content in a message sent by a message sender comprises a processor configured to receive an indication from the message sender that the message is to be protected, identify content in the message to be protected, add the identified content to a database of protected content, and determine whether subsequently received content in a subsequently received message is associated with the identified content.

Claims

1. A method of controlling distribution of content in a message sent by a message sender, comprising:

receiving an indication from the message sender that the message is to be protected;

identifying content in the message to be protected

adding the identified content to a database of protected content; and

determining whether subsequently receiving content in a subsequently received message is associated with the identified content.

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