Systems and methods for message collection

• US 9,419,928 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Issued: 08/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: James Robert Miner, Jason Paul Oettinger
• Original Assignee: James Robert Miner, Jason Paul Oettinger
• Inventors: Miner, James Robert, Oettinger, Jason Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Joo, Joshua
• Assistant Examiner(s): Naji, Younes
• Application Number:
  US13/831,923
• Publication Number:
  US 20130275528A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,250 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/18 Commands or executable codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/42 Mailbox-related aspects, e.g. synchronisation of mailboxes

Abstract

The invention provides systems and methods for processing communication content from a user device. The method performed by a computer and comprising inputting an electronic communication that includes communication content and a routing character string. The communication content constituted by data generated as a result of, and representative of, characters keyed into the user device by the user. Maintaining a bin collection including bins. Performing processing on the communication content including identifying the user and a bin collection of the user based on the routing character string; and processing the communication content including (1) mapping first data to a command; and (2) mapping second data to a bin. The command dictates particular action to be performed, and the bin identifies an identified bin upon which to perform the action; and performing the action on the identified bin.

Claims

1. A system that processes content disposed in an electronic communication from a user device of a user, the user device assigned a routing character string, the system comprises a processor coupled to a memory configured to execute programmed instructions stored in the memory, the system comprising:

a communication portion that inputs an electronic communication from the user device, the electronic communication including communication content and the routing character string, and

the communication content constituted by data generated as a result of, and representative of, characters keyed into the user device by the user, the communication content including at least a character string, and

the character string having been keyed in by the user to the user device and represented in the electronic communication, input by the communication portion, as the electronic communication; and

a processing portion that maintains a bin collection for the user, the bin collection including a plurality of bins; and

the processing portion performing processing including;

identifying the user and the bin collection of the user based on the routing character string;

identifying the character string contained in the electronic communication;

the processing portion performing either;

(A) processing the character string to identify at least one of;

(a) a command, the command dictating particular action to be performed by the processing portion, and (b) an identified bin, in the bin collection of the user, upon which to perform the command;

or

(B) performing further processing to identify at least one of;

(a) the command and (b) an identified bin, if not identified through processing the character string; and

the processing portion performing the command on the identified bin, the identified bin being one of the plurality of bins in the bin collection of the user; and

the processing the character string is performed by the processing portion using natural language processing that includes;

comparing the character string to words in a plurality of word sets;

determining that the character string matches with a word in a word set, the matching word in the word set constituting a first matching word in a first active word set; and

mapping the first active word set to a first word set collection (WSC) directive, the first WSC directive constituting at least one of the command and the identified bin.

2. The system of claim 1, the character string constituted by a command, a trick, and a bin name.

3. The system of claim 1, the character string constituted by a trick, and a bin name, and the processing portion determining the command based on a default setting.

4. The system of claim 1, the processing the character string includes the processing portion utilizing a text map, the text map mapping a customized trig item to a text item, and the character string constituting the customized trig item.

5. The system of claim 4, the processing the character string including mapping the character string to data that identifies the command and the identified bin.

6. The system of claim 4, the processing the character string including mapping the character string to data that identifies the identified bin.

7. The system of claim 4, the processing the character string including mapping the character string to data that identifies the command.

8. The system of claim 1, the processing the character string including mapping the character string to data that identifies at least one of the command and the identified bin.

9. The system of claim 1, the processing the character string including the processing portion mapping the character string to the identified bin;

and

the mapping the character string to the identified bin constituted by the processing portion;

comparing the character string to a listing of character strings;

determining a matching character string in the listing that matches with the character string;

determining a text item that is associated with the matching character string; and

determining the identified bin based on the text item; and

the text item further including a command, and the processing the character string includes identifying the command.

10. The system of claim 1, the identifying the character string is based on comparing the character string to a listing of character strings until a match is determined.

11. The system of claim 1, the processing the character string including:

identifying the command based on the character string, and the processing further including identifying the identified bin based on data different than the character string; and

the identifying the identified bin based on data different than the character string uses sticky parameter processing based on a previously submitted identified bin; and

the bin collection for the user is constituted by the bin collection being mapped to the user in a database to associate the bin collection with the user.

12. The system of claim 1, the processing the character string including identifying the identified bin based on the character string, and the processing further including identifying the command based on data different than the character string.

13. The system of claim 12, the identifying the command based on data other than the character string uses sticky parameter processing based on a previously submitted command.

14. The system of claim 12, the identifying the command based on data other than the character string uses default processing;

and the default processing constituted by the processing deeming the command to be an add command, in the absence of another command in the content, and based thereon content in the electronic communication other than the character string, is added into the identified bin by default.

15. The system of claim 1, the electronic communication being at least one of a text message and an email message.

16. The system of claim 1, the electronic communication being a text message.

17. The system of claim 1, the electronic communication being an e-mail that has been converted from a text message, sent by the user device, prior to inputting by the communication portion.

18. A method to process content disposed in an electronic communication from a user device of a user, the user device assigned a routing character string, the method implemented on a system in the form of a tangibly embodied computer, the computer including instructions on a non-transitory computer readable medium, the method comprising:

inputting, by a communication portion, an electronic communication from the user device, the electronic communication including communication content and the routing character string, and

the communication content constituted by data generated as a result of, and representative of, characters keyed into the user device by the user, the communication content including at least a character string, and

the character string having been keyed in by the user to the user device and represented in the electronic communication, input by the communication portion, as the electronic communication; and

maintaining, by a processing portion, a bin collection for the user, the bin collection including a plurality of bins; and

the method further including the processing portion;

identifying the user and the bin collection of the user based on the routing character string;

identifying the character string contained in the electronic communication;

the method including the processing portion performing either;

(A) processing the character string to identify at least one of;

(a) a command, the command dictating particular action to be performed by the processing portion, and (b) an identified bin, in the bin collection of the user, upon which to perform the command;

or

(B) performing further processing to identify at least one of;

(a) the command and (b) an identified bin, if not identified through processing the character string; and

the method further including the processing portion performing the command on the identified bin, the identified bin being one of the plurality of bins in the bin collection of the user; and

the processing the character string is performed by the processing portion using natural language processing that includes;

comparing the character string to words in a plurality of word sets;

determining that the character string matches with a word in a word set, the matching word in the word set constituting a first matching word in a first active word set; and

mapping the first active word set to a first word set collection (WSC) directive, the first WSC directive constituting at least one of the command and the identified bin.

19. A system that processes content disposed in an electronic communication from a user device of a user, the user device assigned a routing character string, the system comprises a processor coupled to a memory configured to execute programmed instructions stored in the memory, the system comprising:

a first computer readable medium that inputs an electronic communication from the user device, the electronic communication including communication content and the routing character string, and

the communication content constituted by data generated as a result of, and representative of, characters keyed into the user device by the user, the communication content including at least a character string, and

the character string having been keyed in by the user to the user device and represented in the electronic communication, input by the communication portion, as the electronic communication; and

a second computer readable medium that maintains a bin collection for the user, the bin collection including a plurality of bins; and

the second computer readable medium performing processing including;

identifying the user and the bin collection of the user based on the routing character string;

identifying the character string contained in the electronic communication;

the second computer readable medium performing either;

(A) processing the character string to identify at least one of;

(a) a command, the command dictating particular action to be performed by the second computer readable medium, and (b) an identified bin, in the bin collection of the user, upon which to perform the command;

or

(B) performing further processing to identify at least one of;

(a) the command and (b) an identified bin, if not identified through processing the character string; and

the second computer readable medium performing the command on the identified bin, the identified bin being one of the plurality of bins in the bin collection of the user; and

the processing the character string is performed, by the second computer readable medium, using natural language processing that includes;

comparing the character string to words in a plurality of word sets;

determining that the character string matches with a word in a word set, the matching word in the word set constituting a first matching word in a first active word set; and

mapping the first active word set to a first word set collection (WSC) directive, the first WSC directive constituting at least one of the command and the identified bin.