Message composition management for fatigued composers

• US 10,387,843 B2
• Filed: 10/27/2010
• Issued: 08/20/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Gearhart, Rob A., Harpur, Liam, Kelly, Mark, Rice, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Bloomquist, Keith D
• Application Number:
  US12/913,475
• Publication Number:
  US 20120110395A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,219 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for message composition management for fatigued composers of electronic messages. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for message composition management for fatigued composers of electronic messages includes detecting a request by a message composer to transmit a message to a designated recipient in a messaging client executing in memory of a computer. The method also includes computing a fatigue quotient for the message composer. Finally the method includes diverting the message to a drafts folder instead of transmitting the message if the fatigue quotient exceeds a threshold value.

Claims

1. A method for message composition management for fatigued composers of electronic messages, the method comprising:

logging errors in different messages that are composed by a message composer in a messaging client executing in memory of a computer and subsequently transmitted by the messaging client;

computing a number of the logged errors; and

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subsequent to the logging and computing, detecting a request by the message composer to transmit a new message to a designated recipient in the messaging client, and in response to the detection of the request to transmit the new message performing;

determining a number of typographic errors in the new message, computing a fatigue quotient for the message composer based upon a weighted combination of the number of typographic errors in the new message and the computed number of the logged errors for the different messages, the number of typographic errors in the new message being weighted more than the computed number of logged errors, and diverting the message to a drafts folder instead of transmitting the message if the fatigue quotient exceeds a threshold value that varies according to a time of day.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein computing a fatigue quotient comprises combining a count of a number of errors in the message and also in other messages recently composed by the composer.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

opening the message diverted to the drafts folder from the drafts folder;

delaying an ability of the composer to transmit the opened message for a period of time; and

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permitting transmission of the opened message once the period of time has elapsed.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the period of time is computed based upon a size of the opened message.

5. An electronic message composition data processing system configured for message composition management for fatigued composers of electronic messages, the system comprising:

an e-mail client executing in memory of a computer; and

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a fatigue management module coupled to the e-mail client, the module comprising program code that when executed by the computer, logs errors in different messages that are composed by a message composer in the e-mail client computer and subsequently transmitted by the e-mail client, computes a number of the logged errors, and subsequent to the logging and computing, detects a request by the message composer to transmit a new message to a designated recipient in the messaging client, and in response to the detection of the request to transmit the new message, determines a number of typographic errors in the new message, computes a fatigue quotient for the message composer based upon a weighted combination of the number of typographic errors in the new message and the computed number of the logged errors for the different messages, the number of typographic errors in the new message being weighted more than the computed number of logged errors, and diverts the message to a drafts folder of the e-mail client instead of transmitting the message if the fatigue quotient exceeds a threshold value that varies according to a time of day.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the fatigue quotient comprises a count of a number of errors in the message and also in other messages recently composed by the composer.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the program code when executed by the computer further opens the message diverted to the drafts folder from the drafts folder, delays an ability of the composer to transmit the opened message for a period of time, and permits transmission of the opened message once the period of time has elapsed.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the period of time is computed based upon a size of the opened message.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the period of time is computed based upon a complexity of the opened message.

10. A computer program product for message composition management for fatigued composers of electronic messages, the computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising;

computer readable program code for logging errors in different messages that are composed by a message composer in a messaging client executing in memory of a computer and subsequently transmitted by the messaging client;

computer readable program code for computing a number of the logged errors;

computer readable program code for, subsequent to the logging and computing, detecting a request by the message composer to transmit a new message to a designated recipient in the messaging client, and in response to the detection of the request to transmit the new message performing;

determining a number of typographic errors in the new message, computing a fatigue quotient for the message composer based upon a weighted combination of the number of typographic errors in the new message and the computed number of the logged errors for the different messages, the number of typographic errors in the new message being weighted more than the computed number of logged errors, and diverting the message to a drafts folder instead of transmitting the message if the fatigue quotient exceeds a threshold value that varies according to a time of day.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the computer readable program code for computing a fatigue quotient comprises computer readable program code for combining a count of a number of errors in the message and also in other messages recently composed by the composer.

12. The computer program product of claim 10, further comprising:

computer readable program code for opening the message diverted to the drafts folder from the drafts folder;

computer readable program code for delaying an ability of the composer to transmit the opened message for a period of time; and

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computer readable program code for permitting transmission of the opened message once the period of time has elapsed.

13. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the period of time is computed based upon a size of the opened message.

14. The computer program product of claim 12, wherein the period of time is computed based upon a complexity of the opened message.