Re: MS-Patent auf lernende Spamfilter (fwd)

["Neko (Simone Demmel)" <neko@greenie.muc.de>]

PILCH Hartmut (phm@a2e.de) - Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 10:08:09AM +0200:
> > http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='6,161,130'
> Hauptanspruch:
>    1. A method for mail server side filtering electronic mail received
>    over a communication medium comprising the steps of:
>    providing a first filter at the mail server including a list of spam
>    messages which should not be sent to an end user;
>    receiving a first electronic message ultimately intended for one or
>    more end users at the mail server;
>    comparing at the said mail server said received first electronic
>    message to said spam messages provided in said first filter, said
>    received first electronic message discarded if said received first
>    electronic message is included as a spam message in said first filter
>    and transmitting said first electronic message to the end user if said
>    received first electronic message is not included as a spam message in
>    said first filter;
>    providing a second filter at the mail server for the receipt of a
>    second electronic message sent over the communications medium from an
>    end user, said second electronic message received at said second
>    filter considered to be a spam message by the end user;
>    providing a counter associated with said second filter;
>    counting the number of repeated second electronic messages received by
>    said second filter;
>    adding said second electronic message to said first filter as a spam
>    message, if said counter exceeds a predetermined value; and
>    adding said second electronic message to said first filter as a spam
>    message, if said second filter determines that said second electronic
>    message is a spam message.
> 
> geh?rt Microsoft jetzt die Idee, ein Regelsystem zum Herausfiltern von
> unerw?nschter E-Post dadurch zu erweitern, dass man dem Anwender erlaubt,
> unerw?nschte Sendungen von Hand zur?ckzuweisen und die Information ?ber
> solche Zur?ckweisungen sammelt und in die Datenbank der Filterregeln
> ?bernimmt.

SpamAssasin macht sowas doch schon seit Jahren (wer noch?)? Ist das Patent damit
nicht hinfaellig?

neko
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Simone Demmel					neko@greenie.muc.de

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