Eric J Defriez

US Patent:

20100332975, Dec 30, 2010

Filed:

Jun 25, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/491918

Inventors:

Jeffrey Albert Chang - Glenview IL, US
Griffith Buckley Hazen - San Francisco CA, US
Neil Christopher Jones - Sunnyvale CA, US
Frank Pape, III - Endwell NY, US
Eric Geoffrey Cattell - San Francisco CA, US
Daniel Beckerley Fingal - San Francisco CA, US
Gordon Leslie Rowell - Sydney, AU
Eric James DeFriez - Oakland CA, US

Assignee:

GOOGLE INC. - Mountain View CA

International Classification:

G06F 15/16
G06F 17/24

US Classification:

715256, 709206

Abstract:

Email messages in a mailing list for an organization are monitored and filtered (or queued for moderation) based on predetermined characteristics of the message. A manager of the mailing list can later determine whether the queued messages should be approved and distributed to the intended recipients or rejected and prevented from being distributed. Alternatively, an automatic decision is made to approve or reject messages based on the predetermined characteristics. The predetermined characteristics include: the size of the mailing list; the size of the email message; the existence of specified words (such as a product name or a specific word such as “confidential”) within the message; no subject line; the sender has sent too many messages already; and the email address matches a list.