INTEGRATION OF A COMPUTER-BASED MESSAGE PRIORITY SYSTEM WITH MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICES
First Claim
1. A method in a first device, comprising:
- receiving a text directed to a user;
generating a priority of the text; and
contacting a second device over a network to alert the user based on an alert criteria.
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Abstract
Methods for integrating mobile electronic devices with computational methods for assigning priorities to documents are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method first receives a new document such as an electronic mail message. The method assigns a priority to the document, based on a text classifier such as a Bayesian classifier or a support-vector machine classifier. The method then alerts a user on an electronic device, such as a pager or a cellular phone, based on an alert criteria that can be made sensitive to information about the location, inferred task, and focus of attention of the user. Such information can be inferred under uncertainty or can be accessed directly from online information sources. One embodiment makes use of information from an online calendar to control the criteria used to make decisions about relaying information to a mobile device.
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20 Claims
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1. A method in a first device, comprising:
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receiving a text directed to a user; generating a priority of the text; and contacting a second device over a network to alert the user based on an alert criteria. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An electronic device, comprising:
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a processing unit; and system memory that stores at least one program configured to be executed by the processing unit to; generate a priority of a received text that is directed to a user; determine an expected cost of alerting the user regarding the received text based at least on a sensor associated with the user; and alert the user. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A server, comprising:
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a processing unit; a network interface; and system memory that stores at least one program configured to be executed by the processing unit to; receive a text directed to a user; generate a priority of the text; and operate the network interface to communicate with an electronic device over a network to alert the user based on an alert criteria. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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