SUMMARIZATION AND PROCESSING OF EMAIL ON A CLIENT COMPUTING DEVICE BASED ON CONTENT CONTRIBUTION TO AN EMAIL THREAD USING WEIGHTING TECHNIQUES

摘要

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for enhancing an email application to automatically analyze an email thread and generate a compact content summary. The content summary is based on relative content contributions provided by the constituent email messages in the email thread. The content summary may be presented in a special window without disturbing or modifying the email thread or its constituent email messages. The distinctive content summary disclosed herein comprises certain sentences that are automatically gleaned from the email thread, analyzed relative to other sentences, and presented in a chronological sequence so that the user can quickly determine what the email thread is about and/or the current status of the conversation. The content summary is based on email weights, word weights, and intersecting sentence pairs.

主权项

1. A method for automatically analyzing an email-thread and generating a content summary of the email-thread, the method comprising:
identifying, by a computing device that executes an email application, the email-thread comprising a plurality of email messages; generating the content summary of the email-thread, by the computing device, based at least in part on:
(i) an email-weight assigned to each email message in the email-thread,(ii) a word-weight assigned to certain words in each email message in the email-thread, and(iii) an intersection-score assigned to identified intersecting sentence pairs selected from sentences in the email messages in the email-thread,
wherein the first sentence and the second sentence in a respective intersecting sentence pair have a set of words in common; and wherein the content summary of the email-thread is based on relative content contributions by one or more email messages in the email-thread.