Degrees of separation for handling communications

Details Degrees of separation for handling communications Degrees of separation for handling communications

2011-05-17

2011-05-17

Wasel, Mohamed (Department: 2454)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Computer-to-computer session/connection establishing

C709S228000, C709S229000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07945674

ABSTRACT:
A sender's degrees of separation from a recipient may be used to aid in spam filtering or to otherwise handle a communication. The “degrees of separation” represent a metric used to quantify whether/how the recipient is linked to the sender through intermediary people or other entities. A level of “trust” or “legitimacy” about a sender's communication can be inferred by looking at whether the sender is linked to an intended recipient. Typically, user contact lists (e.g., address book, buddy list, and/or white list) are evaluated to determine the number of degrees (or hops) are required to link or relate two users.

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