Presentation of Organized Personal and Public Data Using Communication Mediums

• US 20090177754A1
• Filed: 01/05/2009
• Published: 07/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/03/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yahoo Assets LLC
• Original Assignee: Xobni Corp. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Smith, Adam, Brezina, Matthew
• Granted Patent: US 9,584,343 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0256 User search
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

Abstract

Systems, methods and computer program products for providing information associated with an attachment (e.g., attachment received through an instant message system, online collaboration tool, electronic message and the like). A sidebar may allow a user to view comprehensive profile and content information associated with the attachment using an attachment information viewer. The sidebar also may allow the user to switch between a message attachment information view (e.g., to facilitate browsing of the document or attachment) and a person profile information view (e.g., to facilitate browsing of personal or public data).

Claims

1. A method comprising:

identifying an attachment to an email message;

identifying metadata associated with the attachment including information selected from a group comprising related attachments, related people, related conversations, related web content or revision histories; and

storing the attachment and the metadata in an searchable database.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying an email thread associated with the attachment;

determining whether the email thread includes one or more additional attachments; and

if it is determined that the email thread includes one or more additional attachments, consolidating the attachment, the metadata and the email thread including the one or more additional attachments.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

determining a collaboration history associated with the attachment using the metadata.

4. The method of claim 3, where storing the attachment and the metadata in an searchable database includes storing the collaboration history in the searchable database, the collaboration history being established based on one of an analysis of the metadata, content changes associated with the attachment, tracking of one or more copies of the attachment, or one or more content comparisons between the attachment and one or more similar attachments residing in the searchable database.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a voting status associated with the attachment, the voting status indicative of a characteristic of the attachment,

where identifying metadata associated with the attachment includes identifying the voting status; and

where storing the attachment and the metadata in an searchable database includes storing the attachment, the metadata and the voting status in the searchable database.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

parsing the attachment or email message to identify one or more keywords;

developing a personal profile for a user based on the one or more identified keywords; and

presenting content to the user based on the personal profile.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving one or more user queries, the one or more user queries including one or more search terms;

identifying at least one attachment associated with the one or more search terms; and

displaying the identified attachment.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

indicating to a recipient of the email message whether a sender of the mail message is internal or external to a group associated with the recipient.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing an email attachment information view configured to present content of the attachment.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

displaying a preview of the attachment through the email attachment information view.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying one or more related email attachments associated with the attachment based on one or more predetermined criteria; and

presenting the attachment and the related email attachments to a user.

12. The method of claim 11, where identifying one or more related email attachments associated with the attachment includes:

identifying one or more email threads associated with the attachment; and

identifying one or more related email attachments contained in the one or more identified email threads.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving one or more search queries;

retrieving, in the searchable database, one or more attachments associated with the one or more search queries; and

presenting the one or more retrieved attachments to a user.

14. The method of claim 13, where receiving one or more search queries includes receiving one or more search queries specifying at least one of a date range, a sender, a recipient or an attachment type.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

categorizing one or more attachments stored in the searchable database; and

ranking the one or more categorized attachments based on one or more predetermined criteria.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

selecting one or more attachments stored in the searchable database;

performing a document comparison between two related selected attachments; and

identifying a difference between the two related selected attachments.

17. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a query associated with an attachment;

retrieving the attachment from the searchable database based on the query;

displaying information associated the attachment.

18. A method comprising:

identifying content on a web page that is linked to or from within an email;

aggregating the content in a searchable database;

identifying an action of a user that relates to the content in the searchable database; and

retrieving the related content and presenting the related content to the user.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising identifying content outside the webpage;

where retrieving the related content includes retrieving the identified content outside the webpage, and where presenting the related content to the user includes presenting the related content and the identified content to the user.

20. A method comprising:

identifying a time period in which one or more messages are to be monitored;

monitoring one or more user actions of a user associated with the one or more messages;

developing training data based on the one or more monitored user actions; and

presenting one or more subsequent messages to the user based on the training data.

21. The method of claim 20, where monitoring one or more user actions of a user associated with the one or more messages includes:

determining which of the one or more messages are important to the user based on the one or more monitored user actions; and

identifying one or more characteristics associated with the determined messages.

22. The method of claim 21, where determining which of the one or more messages are important to the user based on the one or more monitored user actions includes:

querying the user as to which of the one or more messages are important.

23. The method of claim 22, where querying the user includes sending a short message service (SMS) text to a mobile device associated with the user.

24. The method of claim 21, where developing training data based on the one or more monitored user actions includes developing training data based on the one or more identified characteristics.

25. The method of claim 24, where presenting one or more subsequent messages to the user based on the training data includes:

identifying one or more messages among the one or more subsequent messages that contain the one or more identified characteristics; and

presenting the one or more identified messages to the user.

26. The method of claim 20, further comprising:

providing a template based on the training data for responding to one or more subsequent messages.

27. A computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform operations comprising:

displaying a sidebar tool to facilitate a selection of an message attachment information view and a personal profile information view;

displaying content associated with one or more message attachments when the message attachment information is selected; and

displaying personal or public data of one or more users associated with the one or more message attachments when the personal profile information view is selected.