MESSAGE FOCUSING
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Abstract
A method and apparatus of a device that focuses messages is described. In an exemplary method, the device receives a first and second group of message. The device further selects a related message from the second group of messages that is related to each message in the first group. This selecting is based on an affinity group, where the affinity group includes a message address that occurs in at least one of the messages in the second group and the affinity group is determined using the message addresses contained in the first and second groups.
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21. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having executable instructions to cause one or more processing units to perform a method comprising:
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receiving a plurality of message threads, wherein each of the plurality of threads includes one or more messages that are related to each of the messages in that thread and a message includes data specifying a plurality of message addresses; for each of the message threads, computing a thread signature using a set of affinity groups, wherein each affinity group is a group of message addresses that represent entities that communicate with each other for a particular common purpose, the thread signature comprises a set of values representing the distances between the message addresses in the set of affinity groups and the message addresses in each message in the message thread; and creating at least one group of related message threads using the plurality of thread signatures. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A method comprising:
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receiving a plurality of message threads, wherein each of the plurality of threads includes one or more messages that are related to each of the messages in that thread and a message includes data specifying a plurality of message addresses; for each of the message threads, computing a thread signature using a set of affinity groups, wherein each affinity group is a group of message addresses that are related to each other and the thread signature comprises a set of values representing the distances between the message addresses in the set of affinity groups and the message addresses in each message in the message thread; and creating at least one group of related message threads using the plurality of thread signatures. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. An apparatus comprising:
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means for receiving a plurality of message threads, wherein each of the plurality of threads includes one or more messages that are related to each of the messages in that thread and a message includes data specifying a plurality of message addresses; means for computing a thread signature, for each of the message threads, using a set of affinity groups, wherein each affinity group is a group of message addresses that are related to each other and the thread signature comprises a set of values representing the distances between the message addresses in the set of affinity groups and the message addresses in each message in the message thread; and means for creating a group of related message threads using the plurality of thread signatures. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40)
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