US Patent Issued to Proofpoint on Sept. 8 for "System and method for improving detection of bad content by analyzing reported content" (Indiana, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,474, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Proofpoint Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"System and method for improving detection of bad content by analyzing reported content" was invented by Mark Stetzer (Westfield, Ind.), Dharmin Shah (Indianapolis), Kehkashan Sadiq Fazal (Indianapolis), Remy Bubulka (Indianapolis) and Luis Blando (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and products for increasing efficiency of resource usage by determining the reliability of reporters of unwanted messages and prioritizing evaluation of messages based on the reliability scores. Reports of unwanted messages are evaluated to determin...