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Enabling search for conversations with two messages each having a query team

  • US 8,972,409 B2
  • Filed: 08/29/2011
  • Issued: 03/03/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • at a server having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors so as to perform the method;

    storing a plurality of index entries in an index, a respective index entry corresponding to a respective term and having a plurality of index components, a respective index component of the respective index entry identifying a message that is associated with the respective term, wherein the message includes a header and a message body and the respective term comprises text from the message body of the message, and wherein the message body is separate from the header of the message;

    receiving a first message having a first term;

    associating the first message with a conversation that includes at least a second message, wherein the first term is not included in the second message and the second message includes a second term that is not included in the first message; and

    storing, in the index, a plurality of index components for a same respective referenced object, including an index component indicative of the first term and an index component indicative of the second term, wherein;

    the index component for the second term includes a mapped location that corresponds to an original location of the second term in the conversation; and

    the mapped location of the second term is in a predefined range of locations associated only with terms in the conversation that are in messages other than the first message.

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