System and method for building interest profiles from related messages

• US 20050198256A1
• Filed: 12/29/2003
• Published: 09/08/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Moody, Paul B., Coppinger, Jodi L., Ruvolo, Joann, Kraenzel, Carl J.
• Granted Patent: US 8,805,933 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

A system and method is provided which utilizes a threading service to offer enhanced features for a document management system including an email system. Various enhanced email features may be provided through one or more of the following components: a delete module, a reply module, a profile module, and a search module. The delete module enables a user to delete a selected message, a set of related messages, or the whole set except for the selected message. The reply module enables a user to send a reply message to all addresses associated and involved with an entire set of related messages. The profile module enables a dynamic interest profile to contain all relevant information from an outgoing message and a set of messages related to the outgoing message. The search module enables search results to include documents which match the user'"'"'s query as well as documents related to the documents which match the user'"'"'s query.

Claims

1. A method for building an interest profile for a user comprising:

capturing an outbound document being sent by the user;

determining one or more documents related to the outgoing document; and

determining at least one item of interest with which to update the interest profile for the user based on at least one of terms and content of the one or more documents related to the outgoing document, wherein the at least one item of interest is not otherwise determinable from the outgoing document.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said determining comprises providing the outgoing document to a threading service that determines the one or more documents related to the outgoing document.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the threading service determines a thread to which the outgoing document belongs.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

capturing an incoming document being received by the user;

determining one or more documents related to the incoming document; and

determining at least one item of interest with which to update the interest profile for the user based on at least one of terms and content of the one or more documents related to the incoming document, wherein the at least one item of interest is not otherwise determinable from the incoming document.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining at least one item of interest with which to update the interest profile for the user based on at least one of terms and content of the outgoing document.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising determining at least one item of interest with which to update the interest profile for the user based on at least one of terms and content of the incoming document.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the respective documents comprise email messages.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one item of interest includes one or more of a topic, a name, a document, and a document repository.

9. A system for building an interest profile for a user comprising:

a document management system that manages a plurality of documents;

a profile module operable with said document management system that captures a outbound document from the user to the document management system, that determines one or more documents related to the outbound document, and that determines at least one item of interest with which to update the interest profile for the user based on at least one of terms and content of the one or more documents related to the outbound document, wherein the at least one item of interest is not otherwise determinable from the outbound document.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the profile module further determines at least one item of interest with which to update the interest profile for the user based on at least one of terms and content of the outbound document.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the profile module further captures an inbound document from said document management system to the user, determines one or more documents related to the inbound document, and determines at least one item of interest with which to update the interest profile for the user based on at least one of terms and content of the inbound document or the one or more documents related to the inbound document.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the at least one item of interest includes one or more of a topic, a name, a document, and a document repository.