US 2015/0033141 A1 · SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN INTERACTIVE MESSAGE INBOX

Abstract

Disclosed is a system and method for email management that leverages information associated with an incoming email message in order to organize the recipient's inbox and display relevant message content from the inbox. The present disclosure identifies messages by their relevance to a recipient, and effectively displays the relevant portions of the message to the recipient in an efficient manner which allows users to interact with the messages from the inbox. According to some embodiments, the present disclosure categorizes emails and provides a user interface for presenting the emails prioritized by importance or relevance to the recipient. The present disclosure logically categorizes incoming emails and displays enriched snippets extracted from the messages from the inbox without the user having to open the message, thereby allowing the user to view and/or interact with the message from the inbox.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving, at a computing device over a network, a message from a first user addressed to a second user, said message comprising content and message metadata;
parsing, via the computing device, the message metadata to extract an identifier associated with the first user;
categorizing, via the computing device, the message based on the first user identifier, said categorizing comprising determining a message category corresponding to a message type associated with the first user identifier;
determining, via the computing device, a message template associated with said message category, said message template comprising information for identifying relevant portions of said message type;
comparing, via the computing device, the message template to the message content, said comparing comprising identifying first content from the message content based on said information in the message template;
extracting, via the computing device, said first content from said message content;
and
facilitating, via the computing device, display of said first content in an inbox associated with the second user.

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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium tangibly encoded with computer-executable instructions, that when executed by a computing device, perform a method comprising:

receiving a message from a first user addressed to a second user, said message comprising content and message metadata;
parsing the message metadata to extract an identifier associated with the first user;
categorizing the message based on the first user identifier, said categorizing comprising determining a message category corresponding to a message type associated with the first user identifier;
determining a message template associated with said message category, said message template comprising information for identifying relevant portions of said message type;
comparing the message template to the message content, said comparing comprising identifying first content from the message content based on said information in the message template;
extracting said first content from said message content;
and
facilitating display of said first content in an inbox associated with the second user.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

System and method for providing an interactive message inbox

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System and method for providing an interactive message inbox

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