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US 8,112,487 · App. 12/468,112 · Granted Feb 7, 2012

System and method for message filtering

Assignee: Raytheon Company
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 8,112,487
App. No.
12/468,112
Filed
May 19, 2009
Granted
Feb 7, 2012
Kind
B2
Examiner
FAN, HUA
Art Unit
2456
USPC
709/206
Abstract

A collaborative messaging system and method includes, in a communications engine, a plurality of message interrogators to process a message from a sender to a receiver. The plurality of message interrogators includes a message adjudicator configured to compare message information from the sender with message information obtained by the message adjudicator and to modify the message information from the sender to a more restrictive value. The plurality of message interrogators further includes a message validator configured to allow or deny the message based upon the modified message information.

Claims (27)

1. A collaborative messaging system, comprising:

a communications engine executing in a microprocessor, comprising:

a plurality of message interrogators to process a message from a sender to a receiver, the message comprising message sender information and message content information, comprising:

a message adjudicator configured to:

compare message information from the sender with message information obtained by the message adjudicator, the obtained message information comprising message sender information, message receiver information, and message content information;

modify the message information from the sender to a higher classification level of the message sender information from the sender and the obtained message sender information;

further modify the message information to a higher classification level of the message content information from the sender and the obtained message content information; and

filter the message content based upon the further modified message information and the obtained receiver information; and

a message validator configured to allow or deny the message based upon the further modified message information and the obtained message receiver information.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the message adjudicator filters the message content by removing classified material from the message content.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the message adjudicator filters the message content by removing offensive material from the message content.

4. A collaborative messaging method, comprising:

in a communications engine executing in a microprocessor, processing a message from a sender to a receiver, the message comprising message sender information, message content, and message content information, comprising:

comparing message information from the sender with obtained message information, the obtained message information comprising obtained message sender information, obtained message receiver information, and obtained message content information;

modifying the message information from the sender to a higher classification level of the message sender information from the sender and the obtained message sender information;

further modifying the message information to a higher classification level of the message content information from the sender and the obtained message content information;

filtering the message content based upon the further modified message information and the obtained message receiver information; and

allowing or denying the message based upon the further modified message information and the obtained message receiver information.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising modifying the message information from the sender to a lower classification level of the message sender information from the sender and the obtained message sender information.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein the message sender information further comprises message sender classification information and the obtained message information further comprises obtained sender classification information, and further comprising:

modifying the message information to a higher classification level of the message sender classification information and the obtained sender classification information.

7. The method of claim 4 , wherein the message content information further comprises message content classification information and the obtained message information further comprises obtained content classification information, and further comprising:

modifying the message information to higher classification level of the message content classification information and the obtained content classification information.

8. The method of claim 4 , wherein the message information further comprises message receiver classification information and the obtained message information further comprises obtained receiver classification information, and further comprising:

modifying the message information to a higher classification level of the message receiver classification information and the obtained receiver classification information.

9. The method of claim 4 , wherein filtering the message content further comprises: removing classified material from the message content.

10. The method of claim 4 , wherein filtering the message content further comprises: removing offensive material from the message content.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 26, 2009
From: LEEDBERG, GREGORY; CAREY, KENNETH D.; SPENCER, GEORGE W., JR.
To: RAYTHEON COMPANY
Reel/Frame 022730/0233 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 61128321 · May 20, 2008
Related Publication 20090292784A1 · Nov 26, 2009