Information processing system, storage medium, and information processing method

• US 20060195534A1
• Filed: 09/06/2005
• Published: 08/31/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Horiuchi, Kazunaga, Isozaki, Takashi, Kashimura, Hirotsugu
• Application Number:
  US11/218,834
• Publication Number:
  US 20060195534A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

An information processing system including: a first importance level estimation unit that employs information for emails previously received by a user to classify an email to one of a plurality of first importance level categories; and a second importance level estimation unit that employs the information for the emails previously received by the user and employs a determination reference that differs from the one used by the first importance estimation unit, to determine importance level of emails belonging to each of the first importance level categories from one of a plurality of second importance level categories, which differ from the first importance level categories, the second importance level estimation unit designating the second importance level categories in correlation with the first importance level categories, respectively. Information for the second importance level categories obtained by the second importance level estimation unit is subjected to a predetermined process.

Claims

1. An information processing system comprising:

a first importance level estimation unit that employs information for emails previously received by a user to classify an email to one of a plurality of first importance level categories; and

a second importance level estimation unit that employs the information for the emails previously received by the user and employs a determination reference that differs from the one used by the first importance estimation unit, to determine importance level of emails belonging to each of the first importance level categories from one of a plurality of second importance level categories, which differ from the first importance level categories, the second importance level estimation unit designating the second importance level categories in correlation with the first importance level categories, respectively;

wherein information for the second importance level categories obtained by the second importance level estimation unit is subjected to a predetermined process.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the first and second importance level estimation units employs Bayesian statistics or a Bayesian network to determine the first or the second importance level category for the email.

3. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the first importance level estimation unit employs information for a first set of emails as the information for the emails previously received by the user, and the second importance level estimation unit employs information for a second set of emails that differs from the first set.

4. The information processing system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a monitoring unit that monitors a response by the user relative to an email; and

an importance level evaluation unit that evaluates an importance level of the email while employing information for the response by the user obtained by the monitoring unit;

wherein the first and the second importance level estimation units determine the importance levels while employing results obtained by the importance level evaluation unit.

5. An information processing method performed by an information processing system, the method comprising:

classifying an email to one of a plurality of first importance level categories while employing information for emails previously received by a user to; and

determining, while employing the information for the emails previously received by the user and a determination reference that differs from the one used in the classifying, importance level of emails belonging to each of the first important level categories from one of a plurality of second importance level categories, which differ from the first importance level categories, and designating the second importance level categories in correlation with the first importance level categories, respectively;

wherein information for the second importance level categories is subjected to a predetermined process.

6. A storage medium readable by a computer, the storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform a function comprising:

classifying an email to one of a plurality of first importance level categories while employing information for emails previously received by a user to; and

determining, while employing the information for the emails previously received by the user and a determination reference that differs from the one used in the classifying, importance level of emails belonging to each of the first important level categories from one of a plurality of second importance level categories, which differ from the first importance level categories, and designating the second importance level categories in correlation with the first importance level categories, respectively;

wherein information for the second importance level categories is subjected to a predetermined process.