EMAIL CONTENT MANAGEMENT AND VISUALIZATION

• US 20140372446A1
• Filed: 06/14/2013
• Published: 12/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bell, Denise A., DeLuca, Lisa Seacat, Jenkins, Jana H.
• Application Number:
  US13/917,725
• Publication Number:
  US 20140372446A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/740
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/904 Browsing; Visualisation therefor for navigating the web G06F16/954; browsing optimisation for the web G06F16/957
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/046 Interoperability with other network applications or services

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method, and program product to manage and visualize email content using metadata tags. In an embodiment, the method comprises a computing device receiving an email message that is addressed to a recipient and includes a metadata tag; associating the metadata tag with a predefined category and/or subcategory; transmitting a predefined category and/or subcategory to be displayed using at least a pie chart icon that includes a circular chart divided into sectors that illustrate a numerical portion of the transmitted predefined category and/or subcategory associated with a metadata tag, wherein each sector includes an arc length that is proportional to a quantity of email messages received that have a metadata tag associated with the sector; and generating an object associated with the transmitted predefined category and/or subcategory, wherein in response to a user interacting with the object an action is generated.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a computing device, an email message that includes a metadata tag and is addressed to a recipient;

for each email message received, associating the metadata tag with a predefined category and/or subcategory;

transmitting a predefined category and/or subcategory to be displayed using at least a pie chart icon that includes a circular chart divided into sectors that illustrate a numerical portion of the transmitted predefined category and/or subcategory associated with a metadata tag, wherein each sector includes an arc length that is proportional to a quantity of email messages received by the computing device that have a metadata tag associated with the predefined category and/or subcategory the sector represents; and

generating an object associated with the transmitted predefined category and/or subcategory, wherein in response to a user interacting with the object an action is generated.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the action generated includes the generation of an additional pie chart icon for display that includes a circular chart divided into sectors that illustrate a numerical portion of the metadata tags associated with the transmitted predefined category and/or subcategory, and wherein each sector includes an arc length that is proportional to a quantity of email messages that include the metadata tag associated with the transmitted predefined category and/or subcategory.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the action generated includes the generation of an additional pie chart icon for display that includes a circular chart divided into sectors that illustrate a predetermined time frame, and wherein each sector includes an arc length that is proportional to a quantity of email messages received by the computing device that is associated with the predetermined time frame the sector represents.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the action generated includes the generation of an additional pie chart icon for display that includes a circular chart divided into sectors that illustrate a numerical portion of the transmitted predefined category and/or subcategory, and wherein each sector includes an arc length that is proportional to a quantity of read or unread email messages received by the computing device that include metadata tags that are associated with the transmitted predefined category and/or subcategory.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the metadata tag included in the received email message reflect one or more of a date, time, email message recipient, email message sender, geographic location of the email message sender, relationship between email message sender and email message recipient, geospatial information, email message subject, and whether the received email message is unread.

6. A computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by a processor to:

receive an email message that includes a metadata tag and is addressed to a recipient;

for each email message received, associate the metadata tag with a predefined category and/or subcategory;

transmit a predefined category and/or subcategory to be displayed using at least a pie chart icon that includes a circular chart divided into sectors that illustrate a numerical portion of the transmitted predefined category and/or subcategory associated with a metadata tag, wherein each sector includes an arc length that is proportional to a quantity of email messages received by a computing device that includes the processor, and wherein the email messages received include a metadata tag associated with the predefined category and/or subcategory the sector represents; and

generate an object associated with the transmitted predefined category and/or subcategory, wherein in response to a user interacting with the object an action is generated.

7. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the program code to generate the action includes program code to generate an additional pie chart icon for display that includes a circular chart divided into sectors that illustrate a numerical portion of the metadata tags associated with the transmitted predefined category and/or subcategory, and wherein each sector includes an arc length that is proportional to a quantity of email messages that include the metadata tag associated with the transmitted predefined category and/or subcategory.

8. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the program code to generate the action includes program code to generate an additional pie chart icon for display that includes a circular chart divided into sectors that illustrate a predetermined time frame, wherein each sector includes an arc length that is proportional to a quantity of email messages received by a computing device that includes the processor, and wherein the email messages received are associated with the predetermined time frame the sector represents.

9. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the program code to generate the action includes program code to generate an additional pie chart icon for display that includes a circular chart divided into sectors that illustrate a numerical portion of the transmitted predefined category and/or subcategory, wherein each sector includes an arc length that is proportional to a quantity of read or unread email messages received by a computing device that includes the processor, and wherein the read or unread email messages received include metadata tags that are associated with the transmitted predefined category and/or subcategory.

10. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the metadata tag included in the received email message reflect one or more of a date, time, email message recipient, email message sender, geographic location of the email message sender, relationship between email message sender and email message recipient, geospatial information, email message subject, and whether the received email message is unread.

11. A computer system comprising:

one or more computer processors;

one or more computer-readable storage media;

program instructions stored on the computer-readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions comprising;

program instructions to receive an email message that includes a metadata tag and is addressed to a recipient;

for each email message received, program instructions to associate the metadata tag with a predefined category and/or subcategory;

program instructions to transmit a predefined category and/or subcategory to be displayed using at least a pie chart icon that includes a circular chart divided into sectors that illustrate a numerical portion of the transmitted predefined category and/or subcategory associated with a metadata tag, wherein each sector includes an arc length that is proportional to a quantity of email messages received by a computing device that includes the one or more processors, and wherein the email messages received include a metadata tag associated with the predefined category and/or subcategory the sector represents; and

program instructions to generate an object associated with the transmitted predefined category and/or subcategory, wherein in response to a user interacting with the object an action is generated.

12. The computer system of claim 11, wherein the program instructions to generate the action include program instructions to generate an additional pie chart icon for display that includes a circular chart divided into sectors that illustrate a numerical portion of the metadata tags associated with the transmitted predefined category and/or subcategory, and wherein each sector includes an arc length that is proportional to a quantity of email messages that include the metadata tag associated with the transmitted predefined category and/or subcategory.

13. The computer system of claim 11, wherein the program instructions to generate the action include program instructions to generate an additional pie chart icon for display that includes a circular chart divided into sectors that illustrate a predetermined time frame, wherein each sector includes an arc length that is proportional to a quantity of email messages received by a computing device that includes the one or more computer processors, and wherein the email messages received are associated with the predetermined time frame the sector represents.

14. The computer system of claim 11, wherein the program instructions to generate the action include program instructions to generate an additional pie chart icon for display that includes a circular chart divided into sectors that illustrate a numerical portion of the transmitted predefined category and/or subcategory, wherein each sector includes an arc length that is proportional to a quantity of read or unread email messages received by a computing device that includes the one or more computer processors, and wherein the read or unread email messages include metadata tags that are associated with the transmitted predefined category and/or subcategory.

15. The computer system of claim 11, wherein the metadata tag included in the received email message reflects one or more of a date, time, email message recipient, email message sender, geographic location of the email message sender, relationship between email message sender and email message recipient, geospatial information, email message subject, and whether the received email message is unread.