Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Computer conferencing – Demand based messaging
Reexamination Certificate
2006-12-05
2006-12-05
Cardone, Jason (Department: 2145)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Computer conferencing
Demand based messaging
C709S227000, C726S001000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07146402
ABSTRACT:
An e-mail system is described that includes a flow control filter, which is particularly suited for filtering on a per-domain (host) basis. During processing of incoming e-mail, each child MTA process created to handle a particular new connection connects to a flow control filter service, so that it can interact with the service during arrival of a message. This interaction provides a complete description of the incoming client, including IP address and host name, as well as the complete SMTP interaction. Since the flow control filter service monitors all children processes, it attains a global view of traffic flowing through the system. By virtue of its global view, the flow control filter service can track information on a per domain basis, including total volume of e-mail received from a particular domain over a given period of time. Since the knowledge lost by the forking process is captured by the flow control filter service, the service is in a position to enforce policy-based rules, including placing restrictions on child processes, based on the per-domain tallies encountered.
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Cardone Jason
Sendmail, Inc.
Smart John A.
Swearingen Jeffrey R.
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