Systems and methods for adaptive message interrogation through multiple queues
First Claim
1. A method for secure delivery of electronic communications comprising the steps of:
- receiving an electronic communication from a communication source for delivery to a predetermined recipient;
interrogating the communication to determine one or more characteristics associated with the message;
based upon interrogation of the communication, determining whether the communication is to be secured;
where the determination is made that the communication should be secured, selecting one of a plurality of secure delivery mechanisms; and
attempting to deliver the electronic communication to the predetermined recipient via the selected secure delivery mechanism;
wherein determining whether the received communication is to be secured comprises the steps of;
parsing the received communication for indicia indicating a desire for secure delivery; and
specifying the received communication as requiring secure delivery based upon the parsing if one or more predetermined keywords are parsed from the received communication.
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to systems and methods for enhancing electronic communication security. An electronic communication is received and stored. A plurality of risk assessments are made with respect to the received communication thereby generating a risk profile associated with the communication. The assessments are made in a sequential manner by assigning the stored communication and index and serially placing the index on queue associated with interrogation engines that perform the various assessments. The index is initially placed in a queue associated with an interrogation engine performing the first type of assessment on the communication. The index is placed in a subsequent queue only after the interrogation engine associated with the prior queue in which the index was placed has assessed the communication. This is repeated until all desired assessments have been performed. Each assessment may result in the output of an assessment indicator that indicates the results of the particular assessment.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for secure delivery of electronic communications comprising the steps of:
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receiving an electronic communication from a communication source for delivery to a predetermined recipient; interrogating the communication to determine one or more characteristics associated with the message; based upon interrogation of the communication, determining whether the communication is to be secured; where the determination is made that the communication should be secured, selecting one of a plurality of secure delivery mechanisms; and attempting to deliver the electronic communication to the predetermined recipient via the selected secure delivery mechanism; wherein determining whether the received communication is to be secured comprises the steps of; parsing the received communication for indicia indicating a desire for secure delivery; and specifying the received communication as requiring secure delivery based upon the parsing if one or more predetermined keywords are parsed from the received communication. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. Software stored in one or more computer readable media and comprising instructions executable by a processing system for secure delivery of messages, upon such execution causing the processing system to perform operations comprising:
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receiving an electronic communication from a communication source for delivery to a predetermined recipient; interrogating the communication to identify one or more characteristics associated with content included in the communication, wherein interrogating the communication includes parsing the communication to identify the content; determining whether the communication is to be secured based upon the identified characteristics associated with the parsed communication; where the determination is made that the communication should be secured, selecting one of a plurality of secure delivery mechanisms; and attempting to deliver the electronic communication to the predetermined recipient via the selected secure delivery mechanism.
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