System for Email Message Authentication, Classification, Encryption and Message Authenticity
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1. A method for processing and transforming electronic messages comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a message authentication server for receiving and responding to message verification requests;
(b) associating the message authentication server with a sender of electronic messages;
(c) storing at the message authentication server an identifying key of the sender of electronic messages;
(d) storing at the message authentication server information about a message sent by the sender of electronic messages;
(e) transforming the message with message verification information;
(f) transmitting the transformed message to a message recipient;
(g) receiving at the message authentication server a verification request from the message recipient;
(h) in response to the verification request, determining message verification information for the message; and
(i) upon determining message verification information for the message, sending a verification response to the message recipient based on at least some of the message verification information.
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Abstract
A system and method for tracking sender activities to provide proper classifications as a sender or of its email messages. Certain embodiments of the present invention can track the number of messages sent from a specific email address. By doing so, the system and method permits each user to define an acceptable threshold of the number of recipients of each one message received by the user.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for processing and transforming electronic messages comprising the steps of:
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(a) providing a message authentication server for receiving and responding to message verification requests; (b) associating the message authentication server with a sender of electronic messages; (c) storing at the message authentication server an identifying key of the sender of electronic messages; (d) storing at the message authentication server information about a message sent by the sender of electronic messages; (e) transforming the message with message verification information; (f) transmitting the transformed message to a message recipient; (g) receiving at the message authentication server a verification request from the message recipient; (h) in response to the verification request, determining message verification information for the message; and (i) upon determining message verification information for the message, sending a verification response to the message recipient based on at least some of the message verification information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. An electronic message processing and transformation system comprising:
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(a) a message authentication server for receiving and responding to message verification requests; (b) a message associator for associating the message authentication server with a sender of electronic messages; (c) key storage for storing at the message authentication server an identifying key of the sender of electronic messages; (d) message information storage for storing at the message authentication server information about a message sent by the sender of electronic messages; (e) a message transformer for transforming the message with message verification information; (f) a message transmitter for transmitting the transformed message to a message recipient; and (g) a verification processor for receiving and processing a verification request from the message recipient. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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