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Method for summarization of threads in electronic mail

  • US 7,392,280 B2
  • Filed: 12/23/2002
  • Issued: 06/24/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In a computer system operatively connectable to a network and capable of executing a communication process for sending and receiving documents, a method comprising:

  • (A) summarizing a document existing at a current level of a hierarchical organization of documents;

    (B) storing the results of the summarization process of (A) in a separate summary document, said summary document being neither the document summarized and existing at the current level nor a document existing at a level of the hierarchical organization adjacent the current level;

    (C) identifying another document that exists at a level of the hierarchical organization adjacent the current level;

    (D) designating the adjacent level of the hierarchical organization as the current level of the hierarchical organization;

    (E) repeating (A) through (D) until no document exists at any level of the hierarchical organization adjacent the current level.

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