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US 8,943,158 B2Granted
System, method and computer program product for performing an action based on an aspect of an electronic mail message thread
AssigneeMcAfee, Inc.
InventorGopi Krishna Chebiyyam
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Abstract
A system, method and computer program product are provided for performing an action based on an aspect of a thread associated with electronic mail messages. In use, an aspect of a thread associated with a plurality of electronic mail messages is identified. Further, an action is performed based on the aspect of the thread.
Claims24
At least one non-transitory machine accessible storage medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions when executed on a machine, cause the machine to:
- determine a weighted number of participants in a thread associated with a plurality of electronic mail messages, wherein the weighted number of participants is to be determined from weightings assigned to each unique address in the thread, and the weighting for a participant is to be assigned based at least in part on:
- whether the respective participant is addressed directly in the thread or addressed by carbon copy (CC) in the thread, wherein carbon copy participants are to receive a lower weighting, and
- whether respective participant has actively responded to at least some of the mail messages of the thread;
- determine that the weighted number of participants exceeds a threshold weighted number of participants for the thread;
- and
- perform an action based at least in part on the determination that the weighted number of participants exceeds a threshold weighted number of participants for the thread.
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A method comprising:
- determining, by a processing device, a weighted number of participants in a thread associated with a plurality of electronic mail messages, wherein the weighted number of participants is to be determined from weightings assigned to each unique address in the thread, and the weighting for a participant is to be assigned based at least in part on:
- whether the respective participant is addressed directly in the thread or addressed by carbon copy (CC) in the thread, wherein carbon copy participants are to receive a lower weighting, and
- whether respective participant has actively responded to at least some of the mail messages of the thread;
- determining that the weighted number of participants exceeds a threshold weighted number of participants for the thread;
- and
- performing an action based at least in part on the determination that the weighted number of participants exceeds a threshold weighted number of participants for the thread.
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A system comprising:
- at least one processor device;
- at least one memory element;
- and
- logic, when executed by the at least one processor device, to:
- determine a weighted number of participants in a thread associated with a plurality of electronic mail messages, wherein the weighted number of participants is to be determined from weightings assigned to each unique address in the thread, and the weighting for a participant is to be assigned based at least in part on:
- whether the respective participant is addressed directly in the thread or addressed by carbon copy (CC) in the thread, wherein carbon copy participants are to receive a lower weighting, and
- whether respective participant has actively responded to at least some of the mail messages of the thread;
- determine that the weighted number of participants exceeds a threshold weighted number of participants for the thread;
- and
- perform an action based at least in part on the determination that the weighted number of participants exceeds a threshold weighted number of participants for the thread.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.