Integration of a computer-based message priority system with mobile electronic devices
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
- operating at least one processor in a computer to perform acts of;
receiving a text;
monitoring user activity related to previously received texts, said monitoring including at least one of determining whether the user opens texts immediately upon receipt or observing an order in which the user reads the previously received texts;
generating a priority of the received text, the priority determined at least in part on the monitored user activity, said generating including generating the priority based on at least one of whether the user opens texts immediately upon receipt or an order in which the user reads the previously received texts;
determining an alert criteria based in part on the priority of the received text; and
alerting a user on an electronic device based on the 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 computer-implemented method comprising:
operating at least one processor in a computer to perform acts of; receiving a text; monitoring user activity related to previously received texts, said monitoring including at least one of determining whether the user opens texts immediately upon receipt or observing an order in which the user reads the previously received texts; generating a priority of the received text, the priority determined at least in part on the monitored user activity, said generating including generating the priority based on at least one of whether the user opens texts immediately upon receipt or an order in which the user reads the previously received texts; determining an alert criteria based in part on the priority of the received text; and alerting a user on an electronic device based on the alert criteria. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A computer-implemented method comprising:
operating at least one processor in a computer to perform acts of; monitoring user review of texts, said monitoring including at least one of determining whether the user reads a text immediately upon receipt or observing an order in which the user reads the texts; training a text classifier based on said monitoring user review of texts, said training including training the text classifier based on at least one of whether the user opens texts immediately upon receipt or an order in which the user reads the previously received texts; receiving a text comprising an email; generating a priority of the text based on the text classifier; and alerting the user when the priority of the text meets a predefined criterion. - View Dependent Claims (14)
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15. A machine-readable storage device having instructions stored thereon for execution by a processor to perform a method comprising:
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monitoring user activity with regard to previously received texts, said monitoring including at least one of determining whether the user opens texts immediately upon receipt or observing an order in which the user reads the previously received texts; receiving a text; generating a priority of the received text based on the monitored user activity, said generating including generating the priority based on at least one of whether the user opens texts immediately upon receipt or an order in which the user reads the previously received texts; determining an alert criteria based in part on the priority of the received text; and alerting a user on an electronic device based on the alert criteria. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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