System and method for read-ahead enhancements

• US 20060165289A1
• Filed: 01/04/2005
• Published: 07/27/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyndryl Incorporated (Kyndryl Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Hamilton, Rick A. II, Boss, Gregory J., McConnell, Kevin C., Seaman, James W.
• Granted Patent: US 8,296,678 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/182
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/313 Selection or weighting of terms for indexing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/328 Management therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/337 Profile generation, learning or modification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/274 Converting codes to words; Guess-ahead of partial word inputs
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads

Abstract

A method and system is provided for analyzing potential repeatable values for placement into a data field based on user-defined criteria and includes analyzing relationships between documents for the purpose of correlating sender and receiver information into a context to more accurately populate type-ahead functions in repeatable data fields. Threaded messages are typically limited to those messages that are responses to responses or responses to an original message and are usually denoted by terms such as, for example, “forwarded” or “reply to” and where the history of the previous related message is included in the most recent message. However, the invention now expands correlation into non-thread related documents to achieve a higher correlation rate. The expanded documents may be any previous email or associated documents of a sender or receiver, including any documents defined by user criteria. In the case of stand-alone applications such as word processors, any user associated document, as defined by user criteria may be included in a contextual association for purposes of type-ahead analysis.

Claims

1. :

A method of identifying type-ahead candidates, comprising the steps of;

matching one or more characters in a non-threaded document with one or more received characters to identify one or more candidate words;

selecting the one or more candidate words based on the results of the matching step; and

presenting and including the selected one or more candidate words into a current document.

2. :

The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of;

creating a preferences profile that defines preferred words or phrases for use in prioritizing the one or more candidate words; and

prioritizing the one or more candidate words based on the preferences profile.

3. :

The method of claim 1, further comprising assigning a weight to the one or more candidate words based on at least any one of a contextual match, a frequency match, a time based time proximity match, inclusive references, and associative matches.

4. :

The method of claim 3, wherein the selecting step includes selecting the one or more candidate words based at least in part on the assigned weight.

5. :

The method of claim 1, wherein the analyzing step includes analyzing at least any one of a threaded document and the non-threaded document.

6. :

The method of claim 1, wherein the one non-threaded document is at least any one of a current email, a stored email, an attachment to an email, short message service (SMS) message, a stored document, and an instant message (IM).

7. :

The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of;

analyzing at least one stored document for context by identifying matching keywords or phrases in the stored document to the one or more received characters; and

associating one or more addressable contact name with the identified matching keywords or phrases; and

creating a context index of the one or more addressable contact names for use by the selecting step.

8. :

The method of claim 7, further comprising prioritizing the one or more candidate words based at least in part on the context index.

9. :

The method of claim 8, further comprising prioritizing the one or more candidate words at least in part on the non-threaded document wherein the non-threaded document is a current document.

10. :

The method of claim 7, wherein the addressable contact name is derived from at least any one of a “

From;

”

address field, a “

To;

”

address field, a “

Cc;

”

address field and a “

Bcc;

”

address field in the at least one stored document.

11. :

The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving at least one additional character when no match occurs and repeating the matching step.

12. :

The method of claim 1, further comprising making one of the one or more candidate words a permanent word in the current document.

13. :

The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of;

identifying whether the current document is in response to a previous communication, and if so,

creating a list of contacts from one or more previous communications;

creating a list of any contacts in a body of the one or more previous communications; and

creating a list of contacts included in any communication involving any contacts associated in any address field in any of the one or more previous communications.

14. :

The method of claim 13, wherein the selecting step selects based on any of the lists.

15. :

The method of claim 1, wherein the selecting step includes selecting the one or more candidate words based at least in part on a context index.

16. :

A system for identifying type-ahead candidates, comprising at least one component to;

receive one or more characters to provide a basis to determine a match;

match one or more characters in a non-threaded document with the received one or more characters to identify one or more candidate words; and

select the one or more candidate words based on the results of the match for presentation and inclusion into a current document.

17. :

The system of claim 16, further comprising the at least one component to;

create a preferences profile that defines preferred words or phrases for use in prioritizing the one or more candidate words; and

prioritize the one or more candidate words based on the preferences profile.

18. :

The system of claim 16, further comprising the at least one component to assign a weight to the one or more candidate words based on at least any one of a contextual match, a frequency match, a time based proximity, an inclusive reference, and an associative match.

19. :

The system of claim 18, wherein the at least one component selects the one or more candidate words based at least in part on the assigned weight.

20. :

The system of claim 16, wherein the at least one component analyzes at least one threaded document.

21. :

The system of claim 16, wherein the non-threaded documents is at least any one of a current email, a stored email, an attachment to an email, a stored document, a short message service (SMS) message and an instant message (IM).

22. :

The system of claim 16, further comprising the at least one component to;

analyze at least one stored document for context by identifying matching keywords or phrases in the at least one stored document with the one or more received characters;

associate one or more addressable contact names with the identified matching keywords or phrases; and

create a context index of the one or more addressable contact names.

23. :

The system of claim 22, further comprising the at least one component to prioritize the one or more candidate words based at least in part on the context index.

24. :

The system of claim 22, wherein the one or more addressable contact names is derived from at least any one of a “

From;

”

address field, a “

To;

”

address field, a “

Cc;

”

address field and a “

Bcc;

”

address field in the at least one stored document.

25. :

The system of claim 16, further comprising the at least one component to prioritize the one or more candidate words at least in part on a non-threaded document wherein the non-threaded document is a current document.

26. :

The system of claim 16, further comprising the at least one component to;

receive at least one additional character when no match occurs; and

make one of the one or more candidate words a permanent word in the current document.

27. :

A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having readable program code embodied in the medium, the computer program product includes at least one component to;

receive one or more characters to provide a basis to determine a match;

analyze at least one non-threaded document to match one or more characters in the non-threaded document with the received one or more characters to identify one or more candidate words; and

select the one or more candidate words based on the results of the analyzing for presentation and inclusion into a current document.