Patents by Inventor Chad W. Mills

Chad W. Mills 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
  • Reputation based redirection service
    Patent number: 8862699
    Abstract: A reputation based redirection service is usable to build URL wrappers for un-trusted and unknown URLs. Such URL wrappers can be used to protect Web users by, for example, redirecting traffic to interstitial Web pages. Additionally, reputation decisions can be made by the service to further protect users from malicious URLs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ameya S. Bhatawdekar, Kristofer N. Iverson, Elliott J. Haber, John L. Scarrow, Chad W. Mills
  • Reputation Based Redirection Service
    Publication number: 20110145435
    Abstract: A reputation based redirection service is usable to build URL wrappers for un-trusted and unknown URLs. Such URL wrappers can be used to protect Web users by, for example, redirecting traffic to interstitial Web pages. Additionally, reputation decisions can be made by the service to further protect users from malicious URLs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ameya S. Bhatawdekar, Kristofer N. Iverson, Elliott J. Haber, John L. Scarrow, Chad W. Mills
  • 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