Processing of Email Based on Semantic Relationship of Sender to Recipient
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorMark J. Seaman
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Abstract
Embodiments are provided for processing received electronic mail messages. A received message is processed based upon a set of rules made up of at least first and second sets of rules. The processing includes ascertaining a property derived from the received message and determining a set of rules associated with the ascertained property. The received message is processed corresponding to at least one rule in the first set of rules if the ascertained property is associated with the first set of rules, and the received message is processed corresponding to at least one rule in the second set of rules if the ascertained property is associated with the second set of rules. The received message is communicated to a recipient based on the at least one rule.
Claims20
A computer system comprising:
- a processor in communication with memory;
- a manager in communication with the processor, the manager to:
- receive an electronic mail message;
- process the received message based upon a set of rules, wherein the set of rules is based upon a semantic relationship derived from the received message, wherein the set of rules comprises at least a first set of rules and a second set of rules, and wherein processing the received message comprises the manager to:
- ascertain a property derived from the received message, and determine a set of rules associated with the ascertained property;
- in response to determining that the ascertained property is associated with the first set of rules, process the received message corresponding to at least one rule in the first set of rules;
- and
- in response to determining that the ascertained property is associated with the second set of rules, process the received message corresponding to at least one rule in the second set of rules;
- and
- communicate the received message to a recipient based on the at least one rule.
A computer implemented method for processing electronic communication comprising:
- receiving an electronic mail message;
- processing the received message based upon a set of rules, wherein the set of rules is based upon a semantic relationship derived from the received message, wherein the set of rules comprises at least a first set of rules and a second set of rules, and wherein processing the received message comprises:
- ascertaining a property of the message derived from the received message, and determine a set of rules associated with the ascertained property;
- in response to determining that the ascertained property is associated with the first set of rules, processing the received message corresponding to at least one rule in the first set of rules;
- and
- in response to determining that the ascertained property is associated with the second set of rules, processing the received message corresponding to at least one rule in the second set of rules;
- and
- communicating the received message to a recipient based on the at least one rule.
A computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the program code when executed by a processor to:
- receive an electronic mail message;
- process the received message based upon a set of rules, wherein the set of rules is based upon a semantic relationship derived from the received message, wherein the set of rules comprises at least a first set of rules and a second set of rules, and wherein processing the received message comprises program code to:
- ascertain a property of the message derived from the received message, and determine a set of rules associated with the ascertained property;
- in response to determining that the ascertained property is associated with the first set of rules, process the received message corresponding to at least one rule in the first set of rules;
- and
- in response to determining that the ascertained property is associated with the second source, process the received message corresponding to at least one rule in the second set of rules;
- and
- communicate the received message to a recipient based on the at least one rule.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.