Methods and Systems for Finding Connections Among Subscribers to an Email Campaign

摘要

Methods and systems to find connections among subscribers to a particular electronic mail (email) newsletter. A list of email addresses to an email campaign is representative of the subscribers to email newsletters that are sent as part of the campaign by a source. A subscriber to a particular email newsletter may receive email newsletter from other sources. A determination is made as to what other email newsletters of each subscribers of the source receive from other sources. The other email newsletters of each subscriber on the list of email addresses of a source are compared to the other subscribers on the list of email addresses. Email newsletters common to subscribers on the list of email addresses are noted. The connections between/among subscribers on the list of email addresses is determined. The weight of a connection may be determined. The connection information may be provided as a service to the source.

主权项

1. A method to find connections among subscribers to a particular electronic mail (email) newsletter, comprising:
receive a list of email addresses with each email address representing a subscriber to the particular email newsletter; determine other email newsletters to which the subscribers subscribe; determine total number of the other email newsletters to which each subscriber subscribes; determine which of the other email newsletters are common to each pair of the subscribers; determine number of the other email newsletters common to the each pair of the subscribers; based on the number of the other email newsletters in common among to the each pair of the subscribers, the total number of the other email newsletters to which a first of the each pair of the subscribers subscribes, and the total number of the other email newsletters to which a second of the each pair of the subscribers subscribes, determine the connections among the respective pairs of the subscribers to the particular email newsletter, determine a weightiest connection of the connections among the respective pairs of the subscribers; determine weightiest connection email newsletters from the other email newsletters with the weightiest connection email newsletters being associated with the weightiest connection of the connections; selectively display a page of each of the weightiest connection email newsletters.