The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a new patent to Iconix titled, “System and method for securely performing multiple stage email processing with embedded codes.”

The abstract for U.S. Patent 11,770,353, dated September 26, 2023, states: “A system and method for performing email processing at multiple stages along an email delivery chain. A first embodiment uses an email filter to receive information about an email message from a message transfer agent and then perform limited email pre-processing on the email message. The email filter then stores instructions and data such as the results from the email pre-processing into an internet email header added to the email message. The instructions and data placed into the email header may be encrypted for privacy and security.Alater email program may extract the instructions and data from the internet email header and continue the email processing. One disclosed application of the multi-stage email processing system is email authentication.”

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Iconix’s nineteenth patent titled, “Techniques for Integrating External Content from Advertising Services into Client Applications.”

The abstract for U.S. Patent 11,416,875, dated August 16, 2022, states: “Techniques for integrating advertising content into client applications are presented. Events occurring within client applications are monitored and when a predefined event is encountered and external advertising service is consulted for acquiring external content. The external content is then integrated into one or more portions of presentations associated with the client applications.”

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Iconix’s eighteenth patent titled “User interface for email inbox to call attention differently to different classes of email.”

The abstract for U.S. Patent 11,343,215, dated May 24, 2022, states: “A user interface for email users which calls attention to one or more categories of emails in different ways. In some species, at least three categories are used: branded senders with Truemarks; white list buddies; and fraudulent emails which are either not from the domain they purport to be from or in which the content was tampered. The preferred embodiment authenticates emails from branded senders and displays them with the sender’s Truemark. Branded sender emails have their Truemarks displayed in the sender column of a list view in the preferred embodiment. In a preferred embodiment, white list senders have either an icon or other graphic or photo they choose displayed to the left or right of the sender column with their name in the sender column. In a preferred embodiment, fraudulent emails have a fraud icon displayed to the left or right of the sender column with a warning in the sender column. Antiphishing processing is also disclosed.”

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Iconix’s seventeenth patent titled “System and method for securely performing multiple stage email processing with embedded codes”

The abstract for U.S. Patent 11,271,883, dated March 8, 2022, states: “A system and method for performing email processing at multiple stages along an email delivery chain. A first embodiment uses an email filter to receive information about an email message from a message transfer agent and then perform limited email pre-processing on the email message. The email filter then stores instructions and data such as the results from the email pre-processing into an internet email header added to the email message. The instructions and data placed into the email header may be encrypted for privacy and security. A later email program may extract the instructions and data from the internet email header and continue the email processing. One disclosed application of the multi-stage email processing system is email authentication.”

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Iconix’s fourteenth patent titled “User Interface for email inbox to call attention differently to different classes of email.”

The abstract for U.S. Patent 10,594,645, dated March 17, 2020, states: “A user interface for email users which calls attention to one or more categories of emails in different ways. In some species, at least three categories are used: branded senders with Trumarks; white list buddies; and fraudulent emails which are either not from the domain they purport to be from or in which the content was tampered. The preferred embodiment authenticates emails from branded senders and displays them with the sender’s Truemark. Branded sender emails have their Truemarks displayed in the sender column of a list view in the preferred embodiment. In a preferred embodiment, white list senders have either an icon or other graphic or photo they choose displayed to the left or right of the sender column with their name in the sender column. In a preferred embodiment, fraudulent emails have a fraud icon displayed to the left or right of the sender column with a warning in the sender column. Antiphishing processing is also disclosed.”

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Iconix’s thirteenth patent titled “Authenticating and confidence marking e-mail messages.”

The abstract for U.S. Patent 10,541,956, dated January 21, 2020, states: “Methods and systems for authenticating and confidence marking e-mail messages are described. One embodiment describes a method of authenticating an e-mail message. This method involves extracting a plurality of e-mail headers associated with the e-mail message, and identifying a sending edge mail transfer agent (MTA). The method then calls for determining if the sending edge MTA is authorized to send the e-mail message.”

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Iconix’s twelfth patent titled “E-Mail Message Authentication Extending Standards Compliant Techniques.”

The abstract for U.S. Patent 10,277,397, dated April 30, 2019, states: “A system and method for e-mail authentication. The method includes aggregating a plurality of headers associated with an e-mail message and transmitting the aggregated plurality of headers to a validation service. A validation response is then received from the validation service. The e-mail is authenticated based on the validation response.”

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued Iconix’s eleventh patent titled “Techniques for integrating external content from advertising services into client applications.”

The abstract for U.S. Patent 10,248,958, dated April 2, 2019, states: “Techniques for integrating advertising content into client applications are presented. Events occurring within client applications are monitored and when a predefined event is encountered and external advertising service is consulted for acquiring external content. The external content is then integrated into one or more portions of presentations associated with the client applications.”