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US 9,071,560 B2Granted
Tagging email and providing tag clouds
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorJesus I. Portilla
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Abstract
A system and method is provided for tracking and/or organizing email and, in particular, a system and method for tagging email in Web 2.0 applications and using the tags in tag clouds is provided. The system includes a computing system that has first program instructions to generate tag clouds having tags linked to associated emails in a collaborative application. A computer readable media stores the first program instructions and a central processing unit executes the first program instructions.
Claims18
A computer system for accessing a message, the computer system comprising:
- one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories, one or more computer-readable storage devices, and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, the program instructions comprising:
- program instructions to receive the message from a sender of the message for posting on an electronic message server, and in response post the message on the electronic message server, wherein the message is an e-mail message;
- program instructions to (a) receive at the electronic message server, from one or more addressees specified in the message, specification of one or more descriptive tags for the message and correlate the one or more descriptive tags to the message, wherein each of the one or more descriptive tags is an html-encoded link emphasizing a relative importance or popularity of user assigned words within an online community and (b) prevent correlation to the message of a descriptive tag from a person who is not the sender of the message, not an addressee of the message and not an administrator of the electronic message server;
- program instructions to receive from one of the addressees a subsequent key word search for the one or more descriptive tags;
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- program instructions, responsive to the subsequent key word search being received from one of the addressees and matching the one or more descriptive tags and the correlation of the one or more descriptive tags to the message, to identify the message to the one addressee.
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A computer program product for accessing a message, the computer program product comprising:
- one or more computer-readable storage devices and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, the program instructions comprising:
- program instructions to receive the message from a sender of the message for posting on an electronic message server, and in response post the message on the electronic message server, wherein the message is an e-mail message;
- program instructions to (a) receive at the electronic message server, from one or more addressees specified in the message, specification of one or more descriptive tags for the message and correlate the one or more descriptive tags to the message, wherein each of the one or more descriptive tags is an html-encoded link emphasizing a relative importance or popularity of user assigned words within an online community and (b) prevent correlation to the message of a descriptive tag from a person who is not the sender of the message, not an addressee of the message and not an administrator of the electronic message server;
- program instructions to receive from one of the addressees a subsequent key word search for the one or more descriptive tags;
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- program instructions, responsive to the subsequent key word search being received from one of the addressees and matching the one or more descriptive tags and the correlation of the one or more descriptive tags to the message, to identify the message to the one addressee.
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A computer system for managing descriptive tags of messages, the computer system comprising:
- one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories, one or more computer-readable storage devices, and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, the program instructions comprising:
- program instructions to (a) receive, from one or more persons authorized to post descriptive tags for a message, specification of one or more descriptive tags for the message and correlate the one or more descriptive tags to the message, wherein each of the one or more descriptive tags is an html-encoded link emphasizing a relative importance or popularity of user assigned words within an online community and (b) prevent correlation to the message of a descriptive tag from a particular person who is not authorized to post descriptive tags for the message, wherein the message is an e-mail message;
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- program instructions, to receive from the one or more persons authorized to post descriptive tags for the message, authorization for the particular person to post descriptive tags for the message, and in response allow correlation to the message of the descriptive tag from the particular person.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.