Method and devices for prioritizing electronic messages
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1. A method of assigning importance classes to electronic messages, the method comprising:
- (a) identifying a sender of an electronic message;
(b) identifying a recipient of the electronic message;
(c) determining a relative organizational distance between the sender and the recipient; and
(d) assigning the electronic message an importance class as a function of the relative organizational distance between the sender and the recipient;
characterized in that;
(e) said function assigns the importance class in inverse dependence on the relative organizational distance between the sender and the recipient.
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Abstract
Importance classes are assigned to electronic messages, by identifying the sender and recipient of an electronic message, determining a relative organizational distance between the sender and the recipient, and assigning the electronic message an importance class, according to the relative organizational distance between the sender and the recipient. The importance setting is further weighted by content criteria and a plurality of rules formed by a machine learning algorithm.
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25 Claims
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1. A method of assigning importance classes to electronic messages, the method comprising:
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(a) identifying a sender of an electronic message;
(b) identifying a recipient of the electronic message;
(c) determining a relative organizational distance between the sender and the recipient; and
(d) assigning the electronic message an importance class as a function of the relative organizational distance between the sender and the recipient;
characterized in that;
(e) said function assigns the importance class in inverse dependence on the relative organizational distance between the sender and the recipient. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 18)
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9. A method for streamlining the management of electronic messages, the method comprising:
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(a) assigning an importance class to each of said messages in inverse dependence on a relative organizational distance between a sender and recipient of the message; and
(b) streamlining said messages in a pre-determined manner in accordance with the respective importance class of each message. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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19. A system for assigning importance classes to electronic messages, said system comprising:
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a message data extraction unit for identifying a sender and a recipient of an electronic message; and
a classifier coupled to the message data extraction unit and being responsive to a relative organizational distance between the sender and the recipient for assigning an importance class to the electronic message in inverse dependence on the relative organizational distance between the sender and the recipient. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21)
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24. A program storage device readable by machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform a method for assigning importance classes to electronic messages, the method comprising:
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(a) identifying the sender of an electronic message;
(b) identifying the recipient of the electronic message;
(c) determining a relative organizational distance between the sender and the recipient; and
(d) assigning the electronic message an importance class as a function of the relative organizational distance between the sender and the recipient in inverse dependence on the relative organizational distance between the sender and the recipient.
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25. A computer program product comprising a computer useable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein of assigning importance classes to electronic messages, the computer program product comprising:
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computer readable program code for causing the computer to identify a sender of an electronic message;
computer readable program code for causing the computer to identify a recipient of the electronic message;
computer readable program code for causing the computer to determine a relative organizational distance between the sender and the recipient; and
computer readable program code for causing the computer to assign the electronic message an importance class as a function of the relative organizational distance between the sender and the recipient in inverse dependence on the relative organizational distance between the sender and the recipient.
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