Message focusing
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsWayne Loofbourrow, Yan Arrouye
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Abstract
A method and apparatus of a device that focuses messages is described. In an exemplary method, the device receives a first and second group of message. The device further selects a related message from the second group of messages that is related to each message in the first group. This selecting is based on an affinity group, where the affinity group includes a message address that occurs in at least one of the messages in the second group and the affinity group is determined using the message addresses contained in the first and second groups.
Claims20
A non-transitory machine-readable medium having executable instructions to cause one or more processing units to perform a method comprising:
- receiving a first group of messages and a second group of messages, wherein each of the messages in the first and second group of messages includes a plurality of message addresses;
- selecting a related message from the second group of messages that is related to each message in the first group of messages, wherein the selecting is based on an affinity group of message addresses, the affinity group includes message addresses representing entities that communicate with each other for a particular common purpose and the affinity group is determined using the plurality of message addresses contained in the first and second groups of messages;
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- generating data to present the related message.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium having executable instructions to cause one or more processing units to perform a method comprising:
- receiving a first group of messages and a second group of messages, wherein each of the messages in the first and second group of messages includes a plurality of message addresses;
- selecting a related message from the second group of messages that is related to each message in the first group of messages, wherein the selecting is based on an affinity group of message addresses, the affinity group includes a message address that occurs in at least one of the messages in the second group and the affinity group is determined using the plurality of message addresses contained in the first and second groups of messages;
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- generating data to present the related message.
An apparatus comprising:
- means for receiving a first group of messages and a second group of messages, wherein each of the messages in the first and second group of messages includes a plurality of message addresses;
- means for selecting a related message from the second group of messages that is related to each message in the first group of messages, wherein the selecting is based on an affinity group of message addresses, the affinity group includes a message address that occurs in at least one of the messages in the second group and the affinity group is determined using the plurality of message addresses contained in the first and second groups of messages;
- and means for generating data to present the related message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.