| US 7,469,292 B2 | ||
| Managing electronic messages using contact information | ||
| Richard A. Landsman, Scotts Valley, Calif. (US); Timothy Thomas Sullivan, Portola Valley, Calif. (US); and Jay Dare Logue, San Jose, Calif. (US) | ||
| Assigned to AOL LLC, Dulles, Va. (US) | ||
| Filed on Dec. 17, 2004, as Appl. No. 11/15,066. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/543806, filed on Feb. 11, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0198171 A1, Sep. 08, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 709—225 [709/207; 709/229] | 18 Claims |
| 1. A system for managing the delivery of an electronic message, the system comprising:
a data storage device comprising at least one computer-readable medium;
system contact information stored on the data storage device, the system contact information including user contact information
for a plurality of users, the user contact information identifying one or more contacts;
an electronic messaging management module configured to access the system contact information and configured to determine
whether a challenge-response process should be initiated at least in part based upon the accessed system contact information;
the electronic messaging management module further configured to perform the following:
determine whether the system contact information includes at least one non-rejected contact for the sender;
determine whether the sender has exceeded an activity limit;
determine whether the system contact information includes a minimum number of contacts for the sender; and
determine whether the number of rejected contacts in the system contact information exceeds a threshold; and
the electronic messaging management module further configured to deliver the electronic message to an inbox of a recipient
specified in the electronic message if;
the sender is included in at least one non-rejected contact for the system contact information;
the sender has not exceeded an activity limit;
the system contact information includes a minimum number of contacts for the sender; and
the number of rejected contacts in the system contact information does not exceed a threshold.
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