METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING FUTURE EMAIL

• US 20150350132A1
• Filed: 05/30/2014
• Published: 12/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: R2 Solutions LLC (Acacia Research Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Maarek, Yoelle, Wajc, David, Gamzu, Iftah, Karnin, Zohar
• Granted Patent: US 10,397,152 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/02 using automatic reactions or user delegation, e.g. automatic replies or chatbot-generated messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information

Abstract

Disclosed is a system, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium for predicting future messages. A processor receives a message sent to a user operating a client device, analyzes the message in light of previously identified patterns and scores assigned to scanned messages, determines a future message that should be received by the client device based on the received message, and transmits an item of information based on the determined future message.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a processor, a message sent to a user operating a client device;

analyzing, by the processor, the message in light of previously identified patterns of previously scanned messages;

analyzing, by the processor, the message in light of scores assigned to each of the previously scanned messages;

determining, by the processor, likely content of a future message that should be received by the client device based on the received message and based on the analyzing of the message in light of the patterns and in light of the scores; and

transmitting, by the processor, an item of information based on the determined likely content of the future message.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting of the item of information further comprises transmitting a notification.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising scanning, by the processor, a plurality of messages from a plurality of message inboxes.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising identifying, by the processor, templates from the plurality of scanned messages.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising determining, by the processor, whether the scanned messages are created by spontaneous appearance, created by appearance due to temporal event, or created by appearance due to a previous message.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising identifying, by the processor, patterns based upon an analysis of scanned messages.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising assigning, by the processor, a score to messages in the scanned messages.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting of an item of information further comprises transmitting a notification that the user should be receiving the future message.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting of an item of information further comprises transmitting a targeted advertisement related to the likely content of the future message.

10. The method of claim 3, wherein the scanning of a plurality of messages from a plurality of message inboxes is an offline process occurring before the receiving of the message.

11. The method of claim 4, wherein the identifying of templates from the plurality of scanned messages is an offline process occurring before the receiving of the message.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting, by the processor, an advertisement

13. A computing device comprising:

a processor;

a storage medium for tangibly storing thereon program logic for execution by the processor, the program logic comprising;

receiving logic executed by the processor for receiving a message sent to a user operating a client device;

first analyzing logic executed by the processor for analyzing the message in light of previously identified patterns of previously scanned messages;

second analyzing logic executed by the processor for analyzing the message in light of scores assigned to each of the previously scanned messages;

determining logic executed by the processor for determining likely content of a future message that should be received by the client device based on the received message and based on the analyzing of the message in light of the patterns and in light of the scores; and

transmitting logic executed by the processor for transmitting an item of information based on the determined likely content of the future message.

14. The computing device of claim 13, further comprising scanning logic executed by the processor for scanning a plurality of messages from a plurality of message inboxes.

15. The computing device of claim 14, further comprising identifying logic executed by the processor for identifying templates from the plurality of scanned messages.

16. The computing device of claim 15, further comprising creation determining logic executed by the processor for determining whether the scanned messages are created by spontaneous appearance, created by appearance due to temporal event, or created by appearance due to a previous message.

17. The computing device of claim 16, further comprising pattern identification logic executed by the processor for identifying patterns based upon an analysis of scanned messages.

18. The computing device of claim 17, further comprising assigning logic executed by the processor for assigning a score to messages in the scanned messages.

19. The computing device of claim 13, wherein the transmitting logic for transmitting the item of information further comprises notification transmitting logic executed by the processor for transmitting a notification that the user should be receiving the future message.

20. The computing device of claim 13, wherein the transmitting logic for transmitting the item of information further comprises advertisement transmitting logic executed by the processor for transmitting a targeted advertisement related to the likely content of the future message.

21. The computing device of claim 14, wherein the scanning logic for scanning a plurality of messages from a plurality of message inboxes is an offline process occurring before the receiving of the message.

22. The computing device of claim 13, wherein the transmitting logic for transmitting the item of information further comprises transmitting logic for transmitting a notification.

24. The computing device of claim 13, further comprising second transmitting logic for transmitting an advertisement.

25. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium tangibly storing computer program instructions capable of being executed by a computer processor, the computer program instructions defining the steps of:

receiving, by the processor, a message sent to a user operating a client device;

analyzing, by the processor, the message in light of previously identified patterns of previously scanned messages;

analyzing, by the processor, the message in light of scores assigned to each of the previously scanned messages;

determining, by the processor, likely content of a future message that should be received by the client device based on the received message and based on the analyzing of the message in light of the patterns and in light of the scores; and

transmitting, by the processor, an item of information based on the determined likely content of the future message.