Ranking Messages in an Electronic Messaging Environment
AssigneeMailrank, Inc.
InventorsDavid Cowan, Ethan Kurzweil, James Cham
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Abstract
The present invention provides methods and systems to score messages exchanged over a network. The methods and systems may gather message interactions of a recipient. A message originating from a sender and destined for the recipient may be received at an email client. A sender score of the message may be determined based on one or more of sender information, the gathered message interactions, and one or more attributes associated with the message. The message may be marked with the determined score in a user interface associated with the email client.
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A method comprising:
- gathering message interactions of a recipient;
- receiving from a sender, a message destined for the recipient;
- determining a sender score of the message based on one or more of sender information, the gathered message interactions, and one or more attributes associated with the message;
- marking the message with a rank derived from the determined score;
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- forwarding the marked message to the recipient.
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A system for scoring messages exchanged over a network, the system comprising:
- a plug-in for an email client, the plug-in for gathering message interactions of a recipient with a plurality of senders, wherein the plug-in views a message from a sender and destined for the recipient;
- a ranking server for determining a sender score of the message based on one or more of sender information, the gathered message interactions, and one or more message attributes, and for sending the score to the email client to be presented along with the message.
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A system comprising:
- a plug-in for an email client for gathering message interactions of a recipient related to a message that originated from a sender and for marking the message with a message score provided from a ranking server, wherein the message score is determined based on one or more of sender information, the gathered message interactions, and one or more attributes associated with the message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.