Method and system for calculating email and email participant prominence
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1. A computer-implemented method for calculating prominence of an email with regard to a user, the method comprising:
- computing, by a computer, a decay factor e−
tγ
associated with an e-mail participant ep, wherein t is the amount of time since a previous email was sent to or received by the email participant, γ
is a decay constant, and the email participant is an entail sender and/or recipient other than the user;
computing a conversation weight cw(ep) associated with the email participant;
computing an importance value I(ep) associated with the email participant by determining a decayed conversation weight for the email participant according to an equation I(ep)=e−
tγ
cw(ep); and
subsequent to computing the importance value, calculating a prominence value associated with a received email based upon the computed importance value associated with the email participant in the received email.
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Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for calculating prominence of an email with regard to a user. During operation, the system determines an importance value associated with an email participant in the user'"'"'s conversations, wherein the email participant is an email sender and/or recipient other than the user. Next, the system calculates a prominence value associated with a received email based upon at least the importance values associated with the email participants in the received email.
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1. A computer-implemented method for calculating prominence of an email with regard to a user, the method comprising:
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computing, by a computer, a decay factor e−
tγ
associated with an e-mail participant ep, wherein t is the amount of time since a previous email was sent to or received by the email participant, γ
is a decay constant, and the email participant is an entail sender and/or recipient other than the user;computing a conversation weight cw(ep) associated with the email participant; computing an importance value I(ep) associated with the email participant by determining a decayed conversation weight for the email participant according to an equation I(ep)=e−
tγ
cw(ep); andsubsequent to computing the importance value, calculating a prominence value associated with a received email based upon the computed importance value associated with the email participant in the received email. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method for calculating prominence of an email with regard to a user, the method comprising:
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computing a decay factor e−
tγ
associated with an e-mail participant ep, wherein t is the amount of time since a previous email was sent to or received by the email participant, γ
is a decay constant, and the email participant is an email sender and/or recipient other than the user;computing a conversation weight cw(ep) associated with the email participant; computing an importance value I(ep) associated with the email participant by determining a decayed conversation weight for the email participant according to an equation I(ep)=e−
tγ
cw(ep); andsubsequent to computing the importance value, calculating a prominence value associated with a received email based upon the computed importance value associated with the email participant in the received email. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A system for calculating prominence of an email with regard to a user, the system comprising:
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a decay factor computing mechanism configured to compute a decay factor e−
tγ
associated with an e-mail participant ep, wherein t is the amount of time since a previous email was sent to or received by the email participant, γ
is a decay constant, and the email participant is an email sender and/or recipient other than the user;a weight-computing mechanism configured to compute a conversation weight cw(ep) associated with the email participant; an importance-value computing mechanism configured to compute an importance value I(ep) associated with the email participant by determining a decayed conversation weight for the email participant according to an equation I(ep)=e−
tγ
cw(ep); anda calculation mechanism configured to, subsequent to computing the importance value, calculate a prominence value associated with a received email based upon the computed importance value associated with the email participant in the received email. - View Dependent Claims (19)
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