System and Method Enabling Future Messaging Directives Based on Past Participation via a History Monitor
First Claim
1. A method for controlling flow of exchanged electronic documents comprising:
- extracting a guaranteed unique self identifier value (SelfGUID) associated each electronic document in a plurality of interrelated non-thread documents in a historical tree relationship;
extracting for each said document a guaranteed unique original predecessor document identifier (OriginGUID) to which each said document is related;
extracting for each said document an immediate predecessor parent document identifier (ParentGUID) to each said document;
accumulating said SelfGUID, OriginGUID, and ParentGUID values for all said documents of said non-thread historical tree structure; and
proposing to an electronic document author while creating a new document in said non-thread structure at least one list of recipients according to classification of potential recipients by historical participation analysis using said extracted GUID.
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Abstract
A system and method for controlling the flow of documents by associating Globally Unique Identifiers with each original document, each reply document, each copy document and each forwarded document, such as email messages. Historical analysis is performed on a locally stored history records containing the Globally Unique Identifiers extracted from received documents to determine which recipients are active participants and which are inactive participants, according to user preferences and thresholds. Lists for direct recipients (e.g. “To” list), carbon copy recipients, and blind copy recipients are automatically proposed to a user of a document handling system when authoring a new document, replying to a document, or forwarding a document, according to the results of the historical participation analysis, thereby stemming information flow to participants who are not active in an ad hoc asynchronous conversation.
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10 Claims
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1. A method for controlling flow of exchanged electronic documents comprising:
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extracting a guaranteed unique self identifier value (SelfGUID) associated each electronic document in a plurality of interrelated non-thread documents in a historical tree relationship; extracting for each said document a guaranteed unique original predecessor document identifier (OriginGUID) to which each said document is related; extracting for each said document an immediate predecessor parent document identifier (ParentGUID) to each said document; accumulating said SelfGUID, OriginGUID, and ParentGUID values for all said documents of said non-thread historical tree structure; and proposing to an electronic document author while creating a new document in said non-thread structure at least one list of recipients according to classification of potential recipients by historical participation analysis using said extracted GUID. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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