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30 August 2011 ,
Written by Dhruv Tanwar
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Secure content and threat management company Kaspersky Lab has been granted a new patent in the US.
Patent № 8,001,195 covers “a highly effective method for identifying spam in the text of email messages using lexical vectors,” the company said in a statement. This method is said to significantly reduce the time needed to detect spam when a large database of known unsolicited messages is used, making it especially useful for large-scale email service providers who filter massive amounts of spam messages each hour.
The patent for the anti-spam technology is Kaspersky's 31st in the USA. The company has another 46 patents pending and currently being examined by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Around 80 applications are currently being examined by patent offices in Russia, China and the European Union relating to a range of Kaspersky's IT security technologies.
Image: Moscow office, courtesy Kaspersky Labs |