INDICATING DOCUMENTS IN A THREAD REACHING A THRESHOLD

• US 20140046945A1
• Filed: 05/08/2011
• Published: 02/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Inventors: Deolalikar, Vinay, Laffitte, Hernan
• Application Number:
  US14/110,484
• Publication Number:
  US 20140046945A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/737
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/345 Summarisation for human users
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/355 Class or cluster creation or modification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems

Abstract

Documents in a document thread include descriptive terms that have weights. An indication indicates when documents in the document thread reach a threshold of weight for the document thread.

Claims

1. ) A method executed by a computer, comprising:

assembling, by the computer, documents into multiple document threads;

identifying, by the computer, a list of descriptive terms appearing in the multiple document threads and weights for the descriptive terms;

calculating, by the computer, scores for the documents and scores for the multiple document threads by multiplying a number of times a descriptive term appears in a document by a weight generated for the descriptive term; and

indicating, by the computer, when the documents in the multiple document threads reach a percentage of weight for the multiple document threads.

2. ) The method of claim 1 further comprising:

calculating a weight for a document thread;

displaying an earliest document in a document thread;

displaying subsequent documents in the document thread until a weight for a document reaches ninety percent of the weight for the document thread.

3. ) The method of claim 1 further comprising:

removing duplicative text in the documents;

displaying both the documents and inboxes with links to where the documents originated.

4. ) The method of claim 1 further comprising, displaying with one of the multiple document threads, a list of the descriptive terms appearing in the one of the multiple document threads, a number of times each of the list of descriptive terms appears in the one of the multiple document threads, and a subject for the one of the multiple document threads.

5. ) The method of claim 1 further comprising, computing a fraction of a weight of a multiple document thread that is contributed by each document in the multiple document thread.

6. ) A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed causes a computer to:

assemble emails threads of emails into clusters;

identify, for each of the clusters, a list of descriptive terms from the email threads and weights for each of the descriptive terms;

calculate a weight for each of the emails and each of the email threads based on a number of times the descriptive terms appear in each of the emails and the email threads; and

display the emails in each of the email threads with an indication when the emails being displayed reach a threshold of weight of the email threads.

7. ) The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 6 that when executed further causes the computer to:

display a list of the clusters with descriptive terms and subjects of some threads in each cluster that include top the top threads by weight;

order the emails threads in each of the clusters according to the scores for the email threads.

8. ) The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 6 that when executed further causes the computer to:

display the email threads according to ranks based on weights of the email threads.

9. ) The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 6 that when executed further causes the computer to:

remove, from being displayed, emails in a thread that have a weight below the threshold, wherein the emails removed from the thread do not include a sufficient number of the descriptive terms.

10. ) The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 6 that when executed further causes the computer to:

cap, to a number three, a number of times a single descriptive term appears in an email.

11. ) A computer, comprising:

a clustering tool; and

a processor to execute the clustering tool to;

obtain a group of emails threads;

calculate weights for emails in the email threads and weights for the email threads based on a number of times descriptive terms appear in the emails and in the email threads; and

indicate when the emails in the email threads reach a threshold of weight for the email threads.

12. ) The computer of claim 11, wherein the processor further executes the clustering tool to:

display scores for the email threads and rankings of the email threads with respect to each other;

display scores for the emails and rankings of the emails in an email thread with respect to each other.

13. ) The computer of claim 11, wherein the processor further executes the clustering tool to:

display an indication when ninety percent (90%) or more of information in the email thread is displayed.

14. ) The computer of claim 11, wherein the processor further executes the clustering tool to:

remove an email from an email thread when a score for the email is below a value;

display the email thread with the email removed;

display, with the email thread, a link to the email that is removed.

15. ) The computer of claim 11, wherein the processor further executes the clustering tool to:

display an email in an email thread;

display a score for the email with respect to other emails in the email thread; and

display, adjacent to the email, the descriptive terms that appear in the email.