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Techniques for identifying spam e-mail

  • US 8,495,144 B1
  • Filed: 10/06/2004
  • Issued: 07/23/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/06/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of identifying spam e-mail, the method to be performed by a computer having a processor and memory, the memory comprising computer-readable program code configured to be executed by the processor so the computer can perform the method, the method comprising:

  • the computer identifying one or more of the tokens in an e-mail, wherein the tokens are selected for use in identifying spam e-mail, and wherein weights of the tokens, weights of heuristic rules that describe relationships between the tokens, and a threshold are computed using a support vector machine;

    the computer using identified tokens to determine if the e-mail satisfies one or more of the heuristic rules;

    the computer using weights of the identified tokens and a weight of a satisfied heuristic rule to generate a spam score; and

    the computer comparing the spam score to the threshold to determine if the e-mail is a spam e-mail or a legitimate e-mail.

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