US Patent Issued to Proofpoint on Dec. 16 for "Executing real-time message monitoring to identify potentially malicious messages and generate instream alerts" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,926, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Proofpoint Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Executing real-time message monitoring to identify potentially malicious messages and generate instream alerts" was invented by Thomas Lee (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to identifying potentially malicious messages and generating instream alerts based on real-time message monitoring. A computing platform may monitor a plurality of messages received by a messaging server associated with an operator. Subsequently, the computing platform may detect that a message of the plurality of messages is potentially ma...