Patents Assigned to Return Path, Inc.
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Patent number: 9143476Abstract: A classification system has a classification server that receives data for an email and determines if the email message is suspicious, legitimate but failing authentication, forwarded or fully authenticated and legitimate when the domains are owned, or not owned, by the domain owner. Email messages are categorized and presented in a report that enables the email sender to identify and fix a network, malicious traffic, and legitimate messages that have failed authentication beyond control. It also highlights where everything is going well.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: Return Path, Inc.Inventors: Bryan P. Dreller, Gregory J. Colburn, George M. Bilbrey
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Publication number: 20140278909Abstract: A system and method redacts information from messages, and especially messages of an email campaign. The system receives a plurality of campaign reports, each campaign report including campaign data associated with the email campaign. The system redacts information from the campaign data, such as personal information of one or more recipients of the email campaign.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Return Path, IncInventors: Robert S. POTTER, Bradford J. FULTS
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Patent number: 8719356Abstract: A system monitor delivery of electronic mail based on subscriber and seed deliverability data. Seed deliverability data is received that includes information indicating a number of email messages associated with an email campaign that are delivered to a folder associated with one or more intended recipients of the email campaign based on a sampling of seed accounts. The seed accounts are not associated with actual recipients of the email campaign. Subscriber deliverability data is received that includes information indicating a number of email messages associated with the email campaign that are delivered to a folder associated with the one or more intended recipients of the email campaign based on one or more subscriber accounts. The seed accounts are associated with a subset of human recipients of the email campaign. One or more deliverability metrics are determined based on the seed deliverability data and the subscriber deliverability data.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2012Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Return Path, IncInventors: Jeremy K. Dillingham, Peter J. Nocchiero, Christopher J. Oake, Sean E. Jordan, George Marvin Bilbrey, Sheela Isac
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Publication number: 20140082726Abstract: A classification system has a classification server that receives data for an email and determines if the email message is suspicious, legitimate but failing authentication, forwarded or fully authenticated and legitimate when the domains are owned, or not owned, by the domain owner, Email messages are categorized and presented in a report that enables the email sender to identify and fix a network, malicious traffic, and legitimate messages that have failed authentication beyond control. It also highlights where everything is going well.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: Return Path, Inc.Inventors: Bryan P. Dreller, Gregory J. Colburn, George M. Bilbrey
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Publication number: 20130275522Abstract: A system monitor delivery of electronic mail based on subscriber and seed deliverability data. Seed deliverability data is received that includes information indicating a number of email messages associated with an email campaign that are delivered to a folder associated with one or more intended recipients of the email campaign based on a sampling of seed accounts. The seed accounts are not associated with actual recipients of the email campaign. Subscriber deliverability data is received that includes information indicating a number of email messages associated with the email campaign that are delivered to a folder associated with the one or more intended recipients of the email campaign based on one or more subscriber accounts. The seed accounts are associated with a subset of human recipients of the email campaign. One or more deliverability metrics are determined based on the seed deliverability data and the subscriber deliverability data.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2012Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: Return Path Inc.Inventors: Jeremy K. Dillingham, Peter J. Nocchiero, Christopher J. Oake, Sean E. Jordan, George Marvin Bilbrey, III, Sheela Isac
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Patent number: 7970832Abstract: Interfaces for message delivery approaches are disclosed. The interface may include pages for administering accounts for senders, pages for administering message processing systems, and pages for viewing information about senders or message processing systems. In another aspect, automatic alert mechanisms are disclosed. The alert mechanisms send a message to one or more users or machines that have been registered to receive alerts. Alerts may be triggered by any event related to a sender, a message, or a message processing system or may be triggered by any other condition or event. In another aspect, techniques for automatically disabling senders are disclosed. The automatic disabling of a sender may be triggered by any event related to a sender, a message, or a message processing system or may be triggered by any other condition or event.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2004Date of Patent: June 28, 2011Assignee: Return Path, Inc.Inventors: George Thomas Perry, Jr., Andrew Flury, Scott Banister, Patrick R. Peterson, James F. Moore, Michael Varney Olivier
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Patent number: 7080122Abstract: The present invention provides various embodiments of a system and a process for updating e-mail and other forms of electronic messages via a change of address network. In one embodiment, the system includes a Sponsor Database (containing mailbox/address information utilized by a Sponsor to send information to a recipient) connected to a Network Server which receives updates of mailbox/address changes from recipients and, in certain embodiments, other Sponsors. In other embodiments, a Reconnection Manager facilitates the exchange of information between the Sponsors and the Network Server. Also, one embodiment of the process provides updated mailbox/address information to those Sponsors which a recipient has previously identified to the Network Server as being acceptable for receiving the update information.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2001Date of Patent: July 18, 2006Assignee: Return Path, Inc.Inventors: George Bilbrey, Kevin O'Connell, Eric Kirby, John Kevin Hartley, Andrew Michael Sautins
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Patent number: 6892222Abstract: A method and apparatus for the re-routing of e-mail sent to a prior address (or an address that is non-working, or temporarily inconvenient) to the new address of an intended recipient. E-mail that is to be sent to a recipient is sent to the former Internet Service Provider (ISP). Because the recipient is no longer a subscriber to the old ISP, or because the address at the old ISP is temporarily inconvenient, the e-mail is re-routed to a re-route server of the present invention. The re-route server then causes the e-mail to be sent to the correct address through a variety of processes. Alternatively, new e-mail addresses are made available at the old ISP. The old ISP can then forward e-mail messages directly to the new ISP.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2002Date of Patent: May 10, 2005Assignee: Return Path, Inc.Inventors: Mark E. McDowell, Joseph G. Khalil, Graham D. Stead