Phonetic filtering of undesired email messages

Details Phonetic filtering of undesired email messages Phonetic filtering of undesired email messages

2003-10-14

2010-02-16

Wong, Don (Department: 2163)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Miscellaneous

C709S206000, C709S226000, C709S229000, C726S009000, C726S011000, C704S260000

Reexamination Certificate

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07664812

ABSTRACT:
Several embodiments, among others, provided in the present disclosure teach a filtering of email messages for spam based on phonetic equivalents of words found in the email message. In some embodiments, an email message having a word is received, and a phonetic equivalent of the word is generated. Thereafter, the phonetic equivalent of the word is tokenized to generate a token representative of the phonetic equivalent. The generated token is then used to determine a spam probability.

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