Computerized systems and methods for a message frequency and control assistant
AssigneeYahoo Assets LLC
InventorTom Gulik
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Abstract
An email system is configured to enable a user to identify frequent email senders and block or consolidate emails from such senders. The emails received within a predetermined time period from a sender, who is selected for consolidation by a user of an email account, are consolidated into one entry in the inbox. This mitigates the inbox from getting overcrowded with frequent emails from various senders. Statistics related to various senders are also generated in order to aid the user in identifying senders whose emails need to be consolidated or blocked.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a device, at a user's email account, a plurality of messages from a plurality of senders;
- identifying, by the device, a respective sender of each of the received plurality of messages;
- determining, by the device, a respective type of each of the received plurality of messages;
- generating, by the device, statistics for the received plurality of messages based on the identified respective sender and the determined respective type of each of the received plurality of messages;
- providing, by the device, the generated statistics for display to the user on a user device in a user interface associated with the user's email account, the generated statistics enabling identification of senders whose emails need to be blocked, the user interface including an interface object enabling the user to instruct the device to block the messages from the identified senders;
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- preventing, by the device, messages from identified senders that are to be blocked from being displayed in an inbox of the user interface associated with the user's email account.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium tangibly encoded with computer-executable instructions, that when executed by a device, perform a method comprising:
- receiving, by the device, at an email account of a user, a plurality of messages from a plurality of senders;
- identifying, by the device, a respective sender of each of the received plurality of messages;
- determining, by the device, a respective type of each of the received plurality of messages;
- generating, by the device, statistics for the received plurality of messages based on the identified respective sender and the determined respective type of each of the received plurality of messages;
- providing, by the device, the generated statistics for display to the user on a user device in a user interface associated with the user's email account, the generated statistics enabling identification of senders whose emails need to be blocked, the user interface including an interface object enabling the user to instruct the device to block the messages from the identified senders;
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- preventing, by the device, messages from identified senders that are to be blocked from being displayed in an inbox of the user interface associated with the user's email account.
A device comprising:
- a processor;
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- a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for tangibly storing thereon program logic for execution by the processor, the program logic comprising:
- logic executed by the processor for receiving at an email account of a user, a plurality of messages from a plurality of senders;
- logic executed by the processor for identifying a respective sender of each of the received plurality of messages;
- logic executed by the processor for determining a respective type of each of the received plurality of messages;
- logic executed by the processor for generating statistics for the received plurality of messages based on the identified respective sender and the determined respective type of each of the received plurality of messages;
- logic executed by the processor for providing the generated statistics for display to the user on a user device in a user interface associated with the user's email account, the generated statistics enabling identification of senders whose emails need to be blocked, the user interface including an interface object enabling the user to instruct the device to block the messages from the identified senders;
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- logic executed by the processor for preventing messages from identified senders that are to be blocked from being displayed in an inbox of the user interface associated with the user's email account.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.