US 9,189,508 B2Granted

Inferring relevance based on user interactions with email

AssigneeTipbit Inc.

InventorsNathaniel Harper Ballou, Gordon John Mangione, Ewan Ellis Mellor

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Abstract

Embodiments are directed towards employing an index of relevant items to determine and provide items that are relevant to a query. A data store that includes a plurality of items may be generated for each user. The user data store may be employed to generate an index of relevant items for each user. Relevant items may be pre-ranked in the index based on a degree of relevancy to a corresponding item. The index of relevant items may be employed to determine ranked relevant items associated with at least one item associated with a query. In response to the query, the relevant items may be further ranked or re-ranked based on at least a current time of the query and a time decay function associated the relevant items. A subset of the determined ranked relevant items may be provided to a client device for display to the user.

Claims30

Dependent claims

A method for managing items over a network, wherein at least one network device enables actions to be performed, comprising:

generating a data store for a user that includes at least a plurality of items associated with the user;
determining at least one separate role of the user for each individual item in the plurality of items;
determining a relevancy between each item of the plurality of items and each other item of the plurality of items;
generating an index for the plurality of items based on at least the determined relevancies, wherein each indexed item includes an identifier to other indexed items that are relevant to a corresponding indexed item;
for at least one indexed item, determining a ranking of the other indexed items that are relevant to the corresponding indexed item, wherein the at least one separate role of the user is employed to determine the ranking;
in response to a selection of an indexed item, providing at least a subset of the ranked indexed items for the selected indexed item for display to the user, wherein the subset of ranked indexed items is determined based on the at least one role of the user for the selected indexed item;
and
displaying the selected index item in a preview pane to the user, wherein the preview pane includes one or more gleams that correspond to one of a plurality of categories for the plurality of items and also indicate a number of other ranked index items that are relevant to the selected indexed item.

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A system for managing items over a network, comprising:

a client device that is configured to perform actions, including:
receiving a selection of an indexed item that is associated with a user;
and
displaying a subset of ranked indexed items to the user;
a server device that is configured to perform actions, including:
generating a data store for the user that includes at least a plurality of items associated with the user;
determining at least one separate role of the user for each individual item in the plurality of items;
determining a relevancy between each item of the plurality of items and each other item of the plurality of items;
generating an index for the plurality of items based on at least the determined relevancies, wherein each indexed item includes an identifier to other indexed items that are relevant to a corresponding indexed item;
for at least one indexed item, determining a ranking of the other indexed items that are relevant to the corresponding indexed item, wherein the at least one separate role of the user is employed to determine the ranking;
in response to a selection of an indexed item, providing at least a subset of the ranked indexed items for the selected indexed item for display to the user, wherein the subset of ranked indexed items is determined based on the at least one role of the user for the selected indexed item;
and
displaying the selected index item in a preview pane to the user, wherein the preview pane includes one or more gleams that correspond to one of a plurality of categories for the plurality of items and also indicate a number of other ranked index items that are relevant to the selected indexed item.

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A network device for managing items over a network, comprising:

a memory for storing instructions and a data store for a user;
and
a processor that executes the instructions to enable actions, including:
generating the data store for a user that includes at least a plurality of items associated with the user;
determining at least one separate role of the user for each individual item in the plurality of items;
determining a relevancy between each item of the plurality of items and each other item of the plurality of items;
generating an index for the plurality of items based on at least the determined relevancies, wherein each indexed item includes an identifier to other indexed items that are relevant to a corresponding indexed item;
for at least one indexed item, determining a ranking of the other indexed items that are relevant to the corresponding indexed item, wherein the at least one separate role of the user is employed to determine the ranking;
in response to a selection of an indexed item, providing at least a subset of the ranked indexed items for the selected indexed item for display to the user, wherein the subset of ranked indexed items is determined based on the at least one role of the user for the selected indexed item;
and
displaying the selected index item in a preview pane to the user, wherein the review s ane includes one or more leams that corres s and to one of a s luralit of cate ories for the plurality of items and also indicate a number of other ranked index items that are relevant to the selected indexed item.

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A processor readable non-transitory storage media that includes instructions for managing items over a network, wherein the execution of the instructions by a processor enables actions, comprising:

generating a data store for a user that includes at least a plurality of items associated with the user;
determining at least one separate role of the user for each individual item in the plurality of items;
determining a relevancy between each item of the plurality of items and each other item of the plurality of items;
generating an index for the plurality of items based on at least the determined relevancies, wherein each indexed item includes an identifier to other indexed items that are relevant to a corresponding indexed item;
for at least one indexed item, determining a ranking of the other indexed items that are relevant to the corresponding indexed item, wherein the at least one separate role of the user is employed to determine the ranking;
in response to a selection of an indexed item, providing at least a subset of the ranked indexed items for the selected indexed item for display to the user, wherein the subset of ranked indexed items is determined based on the at least one role of the user for the selected indexed item;
and
displaying the selected index item in a preview pane to the user, wherein the preview pane includes one or more gleams that correspond to one of a plurality of categories for the plurality of items and also indicate a number of other ranked index items that are relevant to the selected indexed item.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.