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Providing additional information related to a vague term in a message

  • US 9,548,951 B2
  • Filed: 12/31/2013
  • Issued: 01/17/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • identifying a message that is associated with two or more users, wherein the users include a sender and one or more recipients, and wherein the message includes one or more terms;

    determining a vague term of the terms, wherein the vague term includes a plurality of consecutive words, the consecutive words including at least a word and an additional word;

    determining that at least the word of the vague term is a reference to a given user of the users, the given user being the sender or one of the recipients;

    identifying, based on determining that the word is a reference to the given user, a user-restricted database associated with the given user, wherein the user-restricted database includes content personal to the given user, and wherein access to the user-restricted database is limitable by the given user;

    determining, based on the user-restricted database, additional information that is related to the vague term,wherein the user-restricted database is used in determining the additional information that is related to the vague term based on the user-restricted database being associated with the given user and based on the given user being referenced by the word of the vague term; and

    providing the additional information to at least one of the users.

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