Electronic Messaging Recovery Engine
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method for reducing incorrect identification of wanted inbound electronic messages as unwanted electronic messages, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) receiving a notification of an inbound electronic message that has been identified as unwanted and not delivered to the addressed recipient of the electronic message, the notification including identification information of the electronic message;
(b) based on the identification information, determining whether the identification of the inbound electronic message as unwanted is substantially incorrect; and
(c) if identification of the electronic email as unwanted is determined as substantially incorrect, generating a notification that the electronic message is wanted.
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Abstract
The disclosure relates to ensuring wanted electronic messages are reliably delivered to recipients by distinguishing between wanted, authenticated messages and other messages. Notifications of messages that have been identified as spam are received (60) by a messaging recovery engine (30). The engine (30) via recovery module (44) determines (62) whether the email is in fact spam and if it is not spam generates (64) a notification to this effect, such as storing details in a database (34) or by generating instructions (48) to have the message delivered. The advantage is that after-the-fact analysis of security screened electronic messages can be performed. This makes it possible to use the method disclosed with existing messaging security systems with little or no modification to those existing systems. This in turn minimises barriers that would otherwise prevent adoption of methods for reducing false identification of a wanted message as an unwanted message allowing the messaging systems to benefit from improved message delivery.
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16 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method for reducing incorrect identification of wanted inbound electronic messages as unwanted electronic messages, the method comprising the steps of:
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(a) receiving a notification of an inbound electronic message that has been identified as unwanted and not delivered to the addressed recipient of the electronic message, the notification including identification information of the electronic message; (b) based on the identification information, determining whether the identification of the inbound electronic message as unwanted is substantially incorrect; and (c) if identification of the electronic email as unwanted is determined as substantially incorrect, generating a notification that the electronic message is wanted. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13)
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12. A computer system for reducing incorrect identification of wanted inbound electronic messages as unwanted electronic messages, comprising:
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an input port to receive a notification of an inbound electronic message that has not been delivered to the addressed recipient of the electronic message, the notification including identification information of the electronic message; and a processor to determine, based on the identification information, whether the identification of the inbound electronic message as unwanted is substantially incorrect and if the electronic email identified as unwanted is determined as being substantially incorrect, generating a notification that the electronic message is wanted.
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14. A computer-implemented method for reducing incorrect identification of wanted inbound electronic messages as unwanted electronic messages, the method comprising:
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(a) determining that an inbound electronic message is unwanted to prevent the electronic message from being delivered to the addressed recipient of the electronic message; (b) providing or making available a notification that the inbound electronic message has been identified as unwanted to a third party electronic messaging security system, the notification including identification information of the electronic message; and (c) receiving instructions from the third party electronic messaging security system to cause the electronic message to be delivered to the addressed recipient. - View Dependent Claims (16)
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15. A computer system for reducing incorrect identification of wanted inbound electronic messages as unwanted electronic messages, comprising:
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a processor to determine that an inbound electronic message is unwanted preventing the electronic message from being delivered to the addressed recipient of the electronic message, and to cause the electronic message to be delivered to the addressed recipient on instruction from a third party electronic messaging security system; and a communications port to provide or make available a notification that the inbound electronic message has been identified as unwanted to the third party email security system and to receive instructions from the third party email security system to cause the electronic message to be delivered to the addressed recipient.
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