Decluttering general communication message for specific audience

• US 10,263,927 B2
• Filed: 12/08/2015
• Issued: 04/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Mahajan, Sachin
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Wing F
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ng, Billy H
• Application Number:
  US14/961,926
• Publication Number:
  US 20170163595A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,225 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/063 Content adaptation, e.g. replacement of unsuitable content
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information

Abstract

A communication system obtains a message intended for one or more recipients. The message contains one or more content elements. The communication system determines, based on the message, a first recipient of the one or more recipients. The communication system detects a first content tag associated with a first content element of the one or more content elements. The communication system alters the first content element based on the first recipient and the first content tag.

Claims

1. A method for decluttering communication in a collaborative environment, the method comprising:

obtaining, by a communication system, a message intended for one or more recipients, wherein the message contains a body of a plurality of content elements, and wherein the message also contains a title and a sender field and a recipient field,

wherein the body of the plurality of content elements is in a first language,

wherein the message was generated by a single user at a first time;

determining, by the communication system and based on the message, a first recipient of the one or more recipients;

detecting, by the communication system, a first content tag associated with a first content element of the plurality of content elements of the body of the message; and

altering, by the communication system and based on the first recipient and based on the first content tag, the first content element, wherein the altered content element is also in the first language, wherein the altering is rearranging an order of the first content element in relation to the plurality of content elements of the body of the message.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication system is an email client.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the one or more recipients are two or more recipients, and wherein the method further comprising:

determining, by the communication system and based on the message, a second recipient of the two or more recipients;

detecting, by the communication system, a second content tag associated with the first content element of the plurality of content elements of the body of the message;

altering, by the communication system and based on the second recipient and based on the second content tag, the first content element.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the first content tag and the second content tag are the same.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the altering is emphasizing the first content element.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the altering is enlarging the first content element.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the altering is shrinking the first content element.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first content tag is placed explicitly into the message by a sender of the message.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the first content tag is not associated with the first recipient, and wherein the altering is removing the first content element.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the first content tag is associated with a first group of users, and wherein the first recipient is one of the first group of users.

11. A system for decluttering communication in a collaborative environment, the system comprising:

a memory; and

a processor in communication with the memory, wherein the processor is configured to perform a method comprising;

obtaining a message intended for one or more recipients, wherein the message contains a body of a plurality of content elements, and wherein the message also contains a title and a from address and a to address, wherein the message was generated by a single user at a first time;

determining, based on the message, a first recipient of the one or more recipients;

detecting a first content tag associated with a first content element of the plurality of content elements of the body of the message; and

altering, based on the first recipient and based on the first content tag, the first content element, wherein the altering maintains the language of the message before the alteration, and wherein the altering is rearranging an order of the first content element in relation to the plurality of content elements of the body of the message.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the altering is emphasizing the first content element.

13. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computer to cause the computer to perform a method comprising:

obtaining, by a communication system, a message intended for one or more recipients, wherein the message contains a body of a plurality of content elements, and wherein the message also contains a title and a sender and a recipient, wherein the message was generated by a single user at a first time;

determining, by the communication system and based on the message, a first recipient of the one or more recipients;

detecting, by the communication system, a first content tag associated with a first content element of the plurality of content elements of the body of the message; and

altering, by the communication system and based on the first recipient and based on the first content tag and by maintaining the language of the message, the first content element and wherein the altering is rearranging an order of the first content element in relation to the plurality of content elements of the body of the message.

14. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the altering is emphasizing the first content element.

15. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the altering is enlarging the first content element.