SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING EMAILS BASED ON USER RESPONSE TIME
First Claim
1. An email management tool comprising:
- a user interface with display area for displaying a list of received emails;
wherein a plurality of the received emails are sorted based upon priority metrics associated with the senders of the plurality of emails.
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Abstract
An email management method including the steps of determining a user response interval for a plurality of emails, generating an attribute priority number for one or more attributes associated with the plurality of emails, and automatically ranking new emails based on the attribute priority numbers associated with the first plurality of emails. The attribute priority numbers may, therefore, be used to infer the relevance of new emails based on the recipient'"'"'s response time and then display those new emails from the most relevant to least relevant. In the preferred embodiment, the primary email attribute upon which emails are automatically ranked is the sender'"'"'s name or identity, although various other properties of an email may be used to determine a suitable display order for new emails.
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15 Claims
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1. An email management tool comprising:
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a user interface with display area for displaying a list of received emails;
wherein a plurality of the received emails are sorted based upon priority metrics associated with the senders of the plurality of emails. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. An email management apparatus comprising:
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a user interface;
an email response interval capture component configured to determine an interval between the time at least one email is received and the time the at least one received email is responded to;
an email response interval storage component configured to store the determined interval associated with the at least one email; and
a display priority metric component configured to;
correlate the determined interval with a one or more attributes of the at least one email; and
generate a priority number for each of a plurality of new emails based on the correlation between the determined interval and one or more email attributes of the at least one email;
wherein the plurality of new emails are displayed by the user interface in sequential order based on the generated priorities numbers. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An email management method comprising the steps of:
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determining a user response interval for a first plurality of emails;
generating an attribute priority number for one or more attributes associated with the first plurality of emails based on the determined response intervals; and
automatically ranking a second plurality of emails based on the attribute priority numbers associated with the first plurality of emails. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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