Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Computer conferencing – Priority based messaging
Reexamination Certificate
2006-05-23
2006-05-23
Eng, David Y. (Department: 2155)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Computer conferencing
Priority based messaging
Reexamination Certificate
active
07051077
ABSTRACT:
A method, and corresponding system, for identifying e-mail messages as being unwanted junk or spam. The method includes converting the outputs of a set of e-mail classification tools into a standardized format, such as a probability having a value between zero and one. The standardized outputs of the classification tools are then input to a voting mechanism which uses a voting algorithm based on fuzzy logic to combine the standardized outputs into a single classification result. The use of a fuzzy logic algorithm creates a more useful result as the classifier results are not merely averaged. In one embodiment, the single classification result is itself a probability that is provided to a spam classifier or comparator that functions to compare the single classification result to a spam threshold value and based on the comparison to classify the e-mail message as spam or not spam.
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Eng David Y.
Faegre & Benson LLP
MX Logic, Inc.
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