Sender-based ranking of person profiles and multi-person automatic suggestions

摘要

Systems and methods for searching of information regarding persons or to provide assistance for completion during address input. In one embodiment, a method includes automatically generating profiles for persons identified in messages, such as outgoing emails. Based on how the addresses of the persons are used in outgoing messages, the relevancy scores of the addresses are determined. When a user is searching for information or typing an address, the profiles and the relevancy scores are used to identify and sort search results or suggestions for the completion of the address input.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
scanning, by a computing apparatus, a set of messages of a user to identify a plurality of addresses, wherein the user is associated with a plurality of messaging accounts including a first messaging account; identifying, by the computing apparatus, names of persons at the addresses to generate a plurality of profiles for the persons, each profile of the plurality of profiles comprising a name of a respective person, and at least one address for the respective person; making a determination that the user is composing a first message using the first messaging account; and computing, by the computing apparatus, scores of the persons using data in the plurality of profiles to determine relevancy of the persons to the user, wherein the scores are based at least in part on the determination that the user is composing the first message using the first messaging account, and wherein the computing the scores comprises applying a time-decay factor to each message of the set of messages.