Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Patent
1997-05-30
1999-05-18
Lall, Parshotam S.
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
707513, 707501, 345356, G06F17/27
Patent
active
059058633
ABSTRACT:
Current tools for processing e-mail and other messages do not adequately recognize and manipulate threads, i.e., conversations among two or more people carried out by exchange of messages. The present invention utilizes the textual context and characteristics of messages in order to provide a more reliable and effective way to construct message threads. In accordance with the present invention, statistical information retrieval techniques are used in conjunction with textual material obtained by "filtering" of messages to achieve a significant level of accuracy at identifying when one message is a reply to another.
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Knowles Kimberly A.
Lewis David Dolan
AT&T Corp
Coulter Kenneth R.
Lall Parshotam S.
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