PROCESS FOR AUTOMATICALLY HANDLING ELECTRONIC REQUESTS FOR NOTIFICATION OF UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL EMAIL AND OTHER SERVICE DISRUPTIONS
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Abstract
A system and method for automatically processing and responding to large volumes of customer requests regarding Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) and other service disruptions. The process combines manual and automated steps, and includes routing, filtering, aggregating, validating, ticketing, custom and automated responses, tracking, analyzing, and closing each validated request. The process can be used by the Customer Support Center (CSC) of the Internet Service Provider (ISP) to insure that all complaints are handled successfully, that promotion of complaints is done correctly, that legal aspects of certain criminal or fraud related incidents are handled correctly, and that portions of the processing of complaints are handled automatically.
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48 Claims
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1-19. -19. (canceled)
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20. A method including one or more computers, comprising:
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receiving a complaint about an incident on a computer network; identifying a category of the complaint; validating the complaint; identifying a source of the complaint; determining whether a duplicate complaint exists for a similar incident; and sending a message to the source of the complaint. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A system, comprising:
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a plurality of computers connected over a network; a complainant that experiences a service disruption; a service provider that provides service to the complainant via the network, wherein the service provider receives a complaint from the complainant relating to the service disruption, validates the complaint, identifies a source of the service disruption, determines whether a duplicate complaint exists, determines whether a number of the duplicate complaints reaches a predetermined threshold if a duplicate complaint exists, and terminates service to the source of the service disruption if the number of duplicate complaints reaches the predetermined threshold. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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42. A method including one or more computers, comprising:
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receiving a complaint from a complainant about an incident on a computer network; validating the complaint in part by determining whether evidence of the incident is attached to the complaint; identifying a source of the incident based on the evidence; determining whether a duplicate complaint exists; if a duplicate complaint exists, determining whether a number of duplicate complaints for the incident reaches a predetermined threshold; and terminating service to the source of the incident if the number of duplicate complaints reaches the predetermined threshold. - View Dependent Claims (43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48)
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