US 8,301,707 B1Granted

Predictive electronic mail addressing

AssigneeSprint Communications Company L.P.

InventorsLauriann L. Hebb, Jesse Kates, Kristen Miller, Christine Denise Schumaker

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Abstract

A system for predictive electronic mail addressing is provided. The system comprises a computer system and an application, that when executed on the computer system, observes the instantiation of a draft electronic mail message on a client device. The system also analyzes at least one of an entry of a first addressee, an entry of text in the subject line, and an entry of text in the body of the draft electronic mail message. The system also identifies at least one list comprising a plurality of proposed addressees based on the analyzed entries. The system also displays the at least one list in a selection pane on the client device and enters the list into the addressee entry space of the draft electronic mail message when selected.

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Dependent claims

A system for predictive electronic mail addressing, comprising:

a computer system comprising a processor;
and
an application, that when executed by the processor on the computer system,
observes an instantiation of a draft electronic mail message on a client device;
observes an entry of a first addressee in the draft electronic mail message;
observes an entry of a first keyword in a message body of the draft electronic mail message;
determines a first probability calculated as a percentage of historic electronic mail messages addressed to the observed first addressee and including the observed first keyword in the body at least one time;
determines, when the first probability exceeds a first predetermined minimum, a second probability calculated as a percentage of the historic electronic mail messages with the observed first addressee, and with the observed first keyword, and including a list of additional addressees as addressees;
displays, when the second probability exceeds a second predetermined minimum, the list of additional addressees in a pop-up window that enables selectively adding the list of additional addressees to the first addressee displayed in the draft electronic mail message;
and
enters the list into an addressee entry space of the draft electronic mail message when selected from the pop-up window.

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A processor-implemented method for predictive electronic mail addressing, comprising:

observing, by a predictive addressing server, an entry of a first addressee in a first draft electronic mail message on a client computer;
observing, by the predictive addressing server, an entry of a first keyword in a message body of the first draft electronic mail message;
determining, by the predictive addressing server, a first probability calculated using a percentage of historic electronic mail messages addressed to the observed first addressee and including the observed first keyword in the message body at least one time;
when the first probability exceeds a first predetermined minimum, determining, by the predictive addressing server, a second probability calculated as a percentage of the historic electronic mail messages with the observed first addressee, and with the observed first keyword, and including a first collection of additional addressees as addressees;
when the second probability exceeds a second predetermined minimum, displaying, by the predictive addressing server, the first collection of additional addressees in a pop-up window that enables selectively adding the first collection of additional addressees to the first addressee displayed in the first draft electronic mail message;
and
inserting, by the predictive addressing server, the first collection of additional addressees when selected from the pop-up window.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.