SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF AUTOMATICALLY ORDERING AND SELECTING RECIPIENTS FOR ELECTRONIC MAIL

摘要

Systems and techniques of providing suggestions for email recipients to a user who is composing an email communications are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a user may register a plurality of email accounts with an email application. Once an email account is registered with the email application, contact data from each such registered email account may be received. In another embodiment, if the user employs a plurality of devices from which the user composes and/or sends email communications, device-specific contact information may also be received. Relevance metrics may be applied to such suggestions depending upon the contact data received from the various email accounts. Dynamic correction factor may be applied to such relevance metrics—e.g., a decay factor, decrement factor or the like that may or may not be time dependent.

主权项

1. A method for automatically providing suggestions for email recipients to a user composing an email communication, said user having a plurality of email accounts, and each email account further comprising a plurality of contacts; the steps of said method comprising:
inputting user registration of said plurality of email accounts; for at least two said email account registered, receiving contact data from each said email account; and when user is composing an email communication, making suggestions for additional email recipients based upon a relevance metric, said relevance metric derived from said contact data.