Preliminary destination-dependent evaluation of message content

• US 20080320089A1
• Filed: 06/19/2007
• Published: 12/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Searete LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Rinaldo, John D. JR., Mangione-Smith, William Henry, Lord, Robert W., Jung, Edward K.Y., Levien, Royce A., Malamud, Mark A.
• Granted Patent: US 8,682,982 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking

Abstract

A system, method, computer program product, and carrier are described for causing message content to undergo an evaluation mode at least partly dependent upon one or more message content destinations and indicating at least one outcome of the evaluation mode before detecting an apparent authorization to transmit the message content to the one or more message content destinations; or obtaining one or more evaluation parameters in association with a message content destination selection and transmitting at least a tentative-message-content evaluation result from an application of the one or more evaluation parameters to tentative-message-content.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

causing message content to undergo an evaluation mode at least partly dependent upon one or more message content destinations; and

indicating at least one outcome of the evaluation mode before detecting an apparent authorization to transmit the message content to the one or more message content destinations.

3. The method of claim 1 in which causing message content to undergo an evaluation mode at least partly dependent upon one or more message content destinations comprises:

causing a remote resource to apply one or more thresholds of the evaluation mode.

5. The method of claim 1 in which causing message content to undergo an evaluation mode at least partly dependent upon one or more message content destinations comprises:

causing the message content to undergo a content-destination-independent portion of the evaluation mode.

13. The method of claim 1 in which indicating at least one outcome of the evaluation mode before detecting an apparent authorization to transmit the message content to the one or more message content destinations comprises:

implementing the evaluation mode by applying a first-destination-dependent threshold and a second-destination-dependent threshold.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving information from one or more apparent owners of the message content as the apparent authorization to transmit the message content to the one or more message content destinations.

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17. A system comprising:

means for causing message content to undergo an evaluation mode at least partly dependent upon one or more message content destinations; and

means for indicating at least one outcome of the evaluation mode before detecting an apparent authorization to transmit the message content to the one or more message content destinations.

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33. A system comprising:

circuitry for causing message content to undergo an evaluation mode at least partly dependent upon one or more message content destinations; and

circuitry for indicating at least one outcome of the evaluation mode before detecting an apparent authorization to transmit the message content to the one or more message content destinations.

34. The system of claim 33 in which the circuitry for causing message content to undergo an evaluation mode at least partly dependent upon one or more message content destinations comprises:

circuitry for receiving at least some of the evaluation mode from the one or more message content destinations.

35. The system of claim 33 in which the circuitry for causing message content to undergo an evaluation mode at least partly dependent upon one or more message content destinations comprises:

circuitry for causing a remote resource to apply one or more thresholds of the evaluation mode.

36. The system of claim 33 in which the circuitry for causing message content to undergo an evaluation mode at least partly dependent upon one or more message content destinations comprises:

circuitry for receiving a destination selection indication roughly contemporaneously with receiving the message content.

37. The system of claim 33 in which the circuitry for causing message content to undergo an evaluation mode at least partly dependent upon one or more message content destinations comprises:

circuitry for causing the message content to undergo a content-destination-independent portion of the evaluation mode.

38. The system of claim 33 in which the circuitry for indicating at least one outcome of the evaluation mode before detecting an apparent authorization to transmit the message content to the one or more message content destinations comprises:

circuitry for implementing one or more content-destination-dependent security practices of the evaluation mode.

39. The system of claim 33 in which the circuitry for indicating at least one outcome of the evaluation mode before detecting an apparent authorization to transmit the message content to the one or more message content destinations comprises:

circuitry for aggregating data arising from a first destination and a second destination of the one or more message content destinations.

40. The system of claim 33 in which the circuitry for indicating at least one outcome of the evaluation mode before detecting an apparent authorization to transmit the message content to the one or more message content destinations comprises:

circuitry for presenting state-dependent formatting feedback at least partly based on apparently current state information of at least one of the one or more message content destinations.

41. The system of claim 33 in which the circuitry for indicating at least one outcome of the evaluation mode before detecting an apparent authorization to transmit the message content to the one or more message content destinations comprises:

circuitry for causing an implementation of the evaluation mode to reflect one or more updates.

42. The system of claim 33 in which the circuitry for indicating at least one outcome of the evaluation mode before detecting an apparent authorization to transmit the message content to the one or more message content destinations comprises:

circuitry for evaluating the message content in a default mode.

43. The system of claim 33 in which the circuitry for indicating at least one outcome of the evaluation mode before detecting an apparent authorization to transmit the message content to the one or more message content destinations comprises:

circuitry for conveying predictive information as the at least one outcome of the evaluation mode.

44. The system of claim 33 in which the circuitry for indicating at least one outcome of the evaluation mode before detecting an apparent authorization to transmit the message content to the one or more message content destinations comprises:

circuitry for conveying a natural-language descriptor of the evaluation mode.

45. The system of claim 33 in which the circuitry for indicating at least one outcome of the evaluation mode before detecting an apparent authorization to transmit the message content to the one or more message content destinations comprises:

circuitry for implementing the evaluation mode by applying a first-destination-dependent threshold and a second-destination-dependent threshold.

46. The system of claim 33, further comprising:

circuitry for specifying an intermediary along a signal path of the message content.

47. The system of claim 33, further comprising:

circuitry for receiving information from one or more apparent owners of the message content as the apparent authorization to transmit the message content to the one or more message content destinations.

48. The system of claim 33, further comprising:

circuitry for updating at least one nominal-destination-dependent feedback function partly based on input from the one or more message content destinations.

49. An apparatus comprising:

one or more physical media configured to bear a device-detectable implementation of a method including at least

causing message content to undergo an evaluation mode at least partly dependent upon one or more message content destinations; and

indicating at least one outcome of the evaluation mode before detecting an apparent authorization to transmit the message content to the one or more message content destinations.

55. The apparatus of claim 49 in which a portion of the one or more physical media comprises:

one or more processors configured to perform one or more of optical image scanning or auditory pattern scanning upon the device-detectable implementation.

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69. An apparatus comprising:

one or more physical media bearing a device-detectable output indicating an occurrence of

causing message content to undergo an evaluation mode at least partly dependent upon one or more message content destinations; and

indicating at least one outcome of the evaluation mode before detecting an apparent authorization to transmit the message content to the one or more message content destinations.

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