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Forgotten Attachment Detection

  • US 20140012923A1
  • Filed: 07/05/2012
  • Published: 01/09/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In an environment wherein electronic messages may be sent with or without an attachment, a method for determining whether the electronic message suggests that there should be an attachment, the method comprising:

  • inspecting a message to determine whether the message already has an attachment;

    if the message does not already have an attachment then at least one of inspecting the subject line of the message or inspecting the body of the message to determine the likelihood that the message should have an attachment; and

    if the at least one of the subject line of the message or the body of the message indicates that the message should have an attachment then providing a suggestion to a user that the message may need an attachment;

    wherein inspecting the subject line of the message comprisessearching the subject line for the presence of at least one predetermined keyword,if at least one predetermined keyword is present, then providing the suggestion, andif no predetermined keyword is present, then inspecting the body of the message, andwherein inspecting the body of the message comprisesparsing the message to identify at least one sentence within the message,inspecting the at least one sentence for at least one of the presence of at least one predetermined word, for the presence of at least one statistically significant phrase, or at least one template match, to generate a score indicating the likelihood that the message should have an attachment, andif the score is greater than a predetermined score, then providing the suggestion.

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