Patents by Inventor Joshua David Korb

Joshua David Korb 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).

  • Real-time spam look-up system
    Patent number: 8959157
    Abstract: A system and method of managing unsolicited email sent to an email system over a network. Email messages are received at an message at an inbound mail transfer agent. A determination is made as to whether the email message is suspected to be an unsolicited suspect message. One or more queries for additional information on one or more characteristics of the message is initiated. Determinations are made based on replies to the queries before issuing a message accepted for delivery indication to a sending server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jason D. Walter, Eliot C. Gillum, Krishna C. Vitaldevara, Ryan Charles Colvin, Mehrdad Bidgoli, Chad W. Mills, Joshua David Korb, Robert Lee McCann, Douglas John Hines, Malcolm Hollis Davis, Milenko Drinic
  • REAL-TIME SPAM LOOK-UP SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20100332601
    Abstract: A system and method of managing unsolicited email sent to an email system over a network. Email messages are received at an message at an inbound mail transfer agent. A determination is made as to whether the email message is suspected to be an unsolicited suspect message. One or more queries for additional information on one or more characteristics of the message is initiated. Determinations are made based on replies to the queries before issuing a message accepted for delivery indication to a sending server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Jason D. Walter, Eliot C. Gillum, Krishna C. Vitaldevara, Ryan Charles Colvin, Mehrdad Bidgoli, Chad W. Mills, Joshua David Korb, Robert Lee McCann, Douglas John Hines, Malcolm Hollis Davis, Milenko Drinic
  • REACTIVE THROTTLING OF INBOUND MESSAGES AND RANGES
    Publication number: 20100175103
    Abstract: A method for throttling inbound email messages in an enterprise email system including a plurality of inbound mail servers and at least one management server is provided. Policies defining message event limits for each unique sender are applied to messaging events from the unique sender at each inbound server. Feedback from each of the inbound mail servers to the management server is provided. When events from a unique sender exceed a threshold, as determined by the management server using the feedback, an alert is generated and a new, more restrictive policy for the unique sender is created. The more restrictive policy is broadcast the more restrictive policy to each of the inbound mail servers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jason D. Walter, Eliot C. Gillum, Krishna C. Vitaldevara, Ryan Charles Colvin, Mehrdad Bidgoli, Chad Mills, Joshua David Korb