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Community-based message classification and self-amending system for a messaging system

  • US 20040128355A1
  • Filed: 12/25/2002
  • Published: 07/01/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2002
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for leveraging user knowledge for categorization of messages in a computer network, the computer network comprising a first computer in networked communications with a plurality of second computers, the method comprising:

  • providing the first computer with a classifier capable of assigning a classification confidence score to a message for at least a category;

    providing the first computer with a categorization database that contains a category sub-database for each category;

    wherein the classifier utilizes the category database to assign the classification confidence score;

    providing each of the second computers with a forwarding module capable of sending a message from the second computer to the first computer and associating the message with at least one of the categories in the categorization database and associating the message with a user profile;

    receiving a first message at any of the second computers;

    utilizing the forwarding module at which the first message was received to generate and forward a second message to the first computer, contents of the second message based upon contents of the first message, the second message associated with a first category and a first user profile; and

    modifying a first category sub-database in the categorization database according to the contents of the second message and the first user profile, the first category sub-database corresponding to the first category.

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