Apparatus and methods for classifying senders of unsolicited bulk emails

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PATENT NO 9710759
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12686240

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In accordance with one aspect, methods and apparatus facilitate the filtering of unsolicited bulk electronic mail (email) sent from spammers. A plurality of recipient patterns for a plurality of emails from known spammers is logged. A plurality of recipient patterns for a plurality of emails from known non-spammers is also logged. A probabilistic model for predicting whether an unknown sender identity is a spammer is generated or modified based on the logged recipient patterns for the emails from known spammers and known non-spammers.

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  • YAHOO! INC.

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Dasgupta, Anirban Albany, US 23 376
Koren, Yehuda Zichron Yaakov, IL 22 417
Weinberger, Kilian Quirin Mountain View, US 15 369

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