Controlling communication of notifications to a user

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied thereon, the program instructions executable by a processing unit to cause the processing unit to:

• analyze text from each of one or more electronic messages in a thread to identify one or more topics in the thread;
• detect user interaction with the one or more electronic messages, wherein detecting user interaction includes detecting a pointing position of the user on a display when scrolling through the one or more electronic messages, wherein the processing unit is configured to determine that the user is interested in a first topic in response to detecting a pointing position of the user at an edge of the display when scrolling through one or more electronic messages of the thread associated with the first topic, and wherein the processing unit is configured to determine that the user is not interested in a second topic in response to detecting a pointing position of the user in a center of the display when scrolling through one or more electronic messages associated with the second topic;
• determine a sentiment of textual content added to the thread by the user;
• determine a respective level of interest of the user in the one or more identified topics based on detected user interaction with the one or more electronic messages and on the determined sentiment;
• analyze text from a new electronic message to associate the new electronic message with a respective one of the one or more identified topics;
• skip communication of a notification to the user regarding the new electronic message in response to determining that the user is not interested in the topic associated with the new electronic message based on the determined level of interest of the user in the one or more identified topics;
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• communicate the notification to the user regarding the new electronic message in response to determining that the user is interested in the topic associated with the new electronic message based on the determined level of interest of the user in the one or more identified topics.

A system for controlling notifications to a user of an electronic messaging system, the system comprising:

• a storage medium configured to store data;
• an input/output interface;
• and
• a processing unit communicatively coupled to the storage medium and the input/output interface, wherein the processing unit is configured to:
• analyze text from each of one or more electronic messages in a thread to identify one or more topics in the thread;
• detect user interaction with the one or more electronic messages, wherein detecting user interaction includes detecting a pointing position of the user on a display when scrolling through the one or more electronic messages, wherein the processing unit is configured to determine that the user is interested in a first topic in response to detecting a pointing position of the user at an edge of the display when scrolling through one or more electronic messages of the thread associated with the first topic, and wherein the processing unit is configured to determine that the user is not interested in a second tonic in response to detecting a pointing position of the user in a center of the display when scrolling through one or more electronic messages associated with the second topic;
• detect a sentiment of textual content added to the thread by the user;
• determine a respective level of interest of the user in the one or more identified topics based on detected user interaction with the one or more electronic messages and on the detected sentiment of content added to the thread by the user;
• analyze text from a new electronic message to associate the new electronic message with a respective one of the one or more identified topics;
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• control communication of a notification to the user regarding receipt of the new electronic message according to a level of interest of the user in the topic of the new electronic message based on the respective identified topic associated with the new electronic message.