Patents by Inventor Erik Andrew Kay

Erik Andrew Kay 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).

  • Patent number: 8180834
    Abstract: The present invention provides systems, methods, computer program products, and combinations and subcombinations thereof for filtering received messages. The invention includes a client system having filtering logic, a statistical classifier module, and a classifier database. The classifier module is automatically trained, without manual intervention, when the score generated by the classifier for a received message is inconsistent with a user-defined authoritative status indication. In addition, the classifier module is initialized using user-identified messages in a ratio representative of the ratio of non-spam to spam messages received by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Computer Associates Think, Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Andrew Kay, David Moore, Daniel L. Willhite, Linus Upson
  • Patent number: 8126895
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product provide a search module for searching digital data. The search module operates, according to an embodiment, by indexing stored data without interrupting use of the stored data, synchronizing the indexed data with data stored subsequent to the indexing step, searching at least one of the synchronized data and the indexed data, and outputting results of the searching step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Computer Associates Think, Inc.
    Inventors: Antony John Sargent, Erik Andrew Kay, David Moore, Daniel L. Willhite, Linus Upson