BULK-EMAIL FILTER USED IN SYSTEM TO CLASSIFY MESSAGES DEPENDING ON URGENCY OR IMPORTANCE BY COMBINING WITH CASCADE/PARALLEL FILTERING METHOD

摘要

PURPOSE: A bulk-email filter used in a system to classify messages depending on urgency or importance by combining with a cascade/parallel filtering method is provided to efficiently process electronic information and reduce intervention of manual manipulation, as a received information quantity is increased. CONSTITUTION: The bulk filter(114) classifies the received messages(130) according to a classification range. The range is distributed from a value of a bulk classification to the value of the non-bulk classification. An urgency filter(120) additionally classifies the received messages in order to automatically process the messages.