Patents by Inventor Clinton Patrick Syrowitz

Clinton Patrick Syrowitz has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20120215853
    Abstract: Unwanted communication detection and/or management features are providing, including using one or more commonality measures as part of generating templates for fingerprinting and comparison operations, but the embodiments are not so limited. An computing architecture of one embodiment includes components configured to generate templates and associated fingerprints for known unwanted communications, wherein the template fingerprints can be compared to unknown communication fingerprints as part of determining whether the unknown communications are based on similar templates and can be properly classified as unwanted or potentially unsafe communications for further analysis and/or blocking. A method of one embodiment operates to use a number of template fingerprints to detect and classify unknown communications as spam, phishing, and/or other unwanted communications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manivannan Sundaram, Clinton Patrick Syrowitz, Mauktik Gandhi, Charles W. Lamanna