System for regulating electronics mail exchange flow and access to internet

• US 20040010555A1
• Filed: 01/30/2003
• Published: 01/15/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Genencor International Incorporated (International Flavors & Fragrances Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Genencor International Incorporated (International Flavors & Fragrances Incorporated)
• Inventors: Cauchie, Dany
• Application Number:
  US10/343,395
• Publication Number:
  US 20040010555A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

The invention concerns a system for regulating electronic mail exchange flow and access to network sites. Said system comprises at least, implanted at the access servers, a module controlling message reception by an addressee, enabling, when messages are received, to trigger a specific action regulating message reception, in accordance with the origin of the messages, and a module controlling message transmission by a transmitter enabling, when messages are sent, to trigger a specific action regulating transmission, in accordance with selection criteria of the addressees. The invention is applicable to electronic mail messages and/or access in access response to Internet or Intranet network sites.

Claims

1. (Amended). A system for regulating electronic mail message exchange flows and/or access to a networked site, comprising at least, installed at the level of the access servers:

means of control of reception of messages, by a recipient, making it possible, during the reception of any message, to trigger a specific action of regulating reception of the messages, as a function of the origin of these messages; and

means of control of sending of messages, by a sender, making it possible, during the sending of any message destined for at least one recipient, to trigger a specific action of regulating sending of messages, as a function of criteria of choice of these recipients.

2. (Amended). The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said means of control of reception of messages comprise means of control of the frequency of the messages sent by each message sender destined for a recipient.

3. (Amended). The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said means of control of reception of messages comprise means of control of the length of the messages sent by each message sender destined for a recipient.

4. (Amended). The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said means of control of reception of messages comprise means of control of the content of the messages sent by each message sender destined for a recipient, by comparing the content of each message with a set of key words stored in a database.

5. (Amended). The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said means of control of reception of messages furthermore comprise means of disabling of the reception of messages destined for a recipient, upon a criterion of identification of the sender of this message and evaluation of a criterion of reluctance to read messages emanating from this sender by the recipient.

6. (Amended). The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said means of control of sending of messages to a recipient comprise at least means of calculation of a coefficient of receptivity of said recipient to the messages dispatched by the sender.

7. (Amended). The system as claimed in claim 6, furthermore comprising means of display of a notification of receptivity of the recipient destined for this sender.

8. (Amended). The system as claimed in claim 6 comprising means for placing the sender and the recipient in telephonic communication, as a function of the value of said coefficient of receptivity.

9. (Amended). The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein said means of control of sending of messages to a recipient furthermore comprise a database relating to the entire set of recipients who have received at least one message sent by the sender, said database being managed on the basis of criteria of reply of said recipients.

10. (Amended). The system as claimed in claim 1 comprising means of enticement of each sender or recipient to comply with a code of conduct relating to the sending/receiving of electronic messages, respectively of access to a networked site, the code of proper conduct consisting in defining, for each sender respectively recipient, a plurality of threshold values of a set of behavioral variables pertaining to the number of messages sent or of accesses, respectively of messages received or of access returns, as a function of the identity of the recipient respectively of the sender, said means of enticement consisting in allocating bonus points to any sender, respectively recipient, for which at least one behavioral variable is less than a corresponding threshold value and in allocating penalty points to any sender, respectively recipient, for which at least one behavioral variable is greater than this threshold value.

11. (Amended). The system as claimed in claim 10, wherein said means of enticement comprise:

a single manager module for user accounts;

an account of penalty respectively bonus points per user, each account being managed by said single manager of accounts.