Patents by Inventor Vincent M. Ponticelli

Vincent M. Ponticelli 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).

  • Crowdsourcing e-mail filtering
    Patent number: 9544256
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for crowdsourcing e-mail filtering. An embodiment operates by receiving an input from a community member indicating that an e-mail received by the community member is unwanted, counting a number of inputs received from community members indicating that e-mail is unwanted based on one or more criteria, flagging future e-mails based on the criteria when the number of inputs counted reaches a threshold for penalizing an originator or a group associated with the originator of the unwanted e-mail, and denying delivery of future e-mails from the originator or the group associated with the originator until a penalty period expires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: TD AMERITRADE IP COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Louis Steinberg, Teresa Hyda, Jason Vincent, Vincent M. Ponticelli, Trent McAuliff, Joseph Kelly, Andrew Strear
  • CROWDSOURCING E-MAIL FILTERING
    Publication number: 20150006647
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for crowdsourcing e-mail filtering. An embodiment operates by receiving an input from a community member indicating that an e-mail received by the community member is unwanted, counting a number of inputs received from community members indicating that e-mail is unwanted based on one or more criteria, flagging future e-mails based on the criteria when the number of inputs counted reaches a threshold for penalizing an originator or a group associated with the originator of the unwanted e-mail, and denying delivery of future e-mails from the originator or the group associated with the originator until a penalty period expires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Louis STEINBERG, Teresa Hyda, Jason Vincent, Vincent M. Ponticelli, Trent McAuliff, Joseph Kelly, Andrew Strear