US Patent Issued to Symantec on March 8 for "Spam Honeypot Domain Identification" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 11 -- United States Patent no. 7,904,958, issued on March 8, was assigned to Symantec Corp. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Spam Honeypot Domain Identification" was invented by Martin Giles Lee (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract released by the U.

S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Identification of spam honeypot domains is performed automatically by a system. The system searches sources of Internet domains based on user input to identify Internet domains which are candidates for acting as a honeypot domain. The list of domains is refined by a determination unit to exclude domains which are unlikely to be useful. A domain indexer ranks the domains on the basis of a plurality of criteria which are indicative of the likelihood of a domain receiving spam communications."

The patent was filed on Feb. 27, 2007, under Application No. 11/711,094.

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