PROCÉDÉ ET DISPOSITIF POUR RECONNAÎTRE LA SIMILARITÉ DE MESSAGES DE COURRIER ÉLECTRONIQUE

摘要

A method of recognizing similarity of e-mail messages, by an e-mail processing device, wherein said method comprises the steps of receiving an e-mail message, processing a visual representation of said received e-mail message thereby resulting in a processed visual representation in which visual characteristics of said visual representation are highlighted, computing from said processed visual representation, a content identification code, wherein said content identification code is a measure for how a human would visually perceive said received e-mail message, and determining that said received e-mail message is similar to another e-mail message by finding a match between said computed content identification code and a plurality of content identification codes in a database.