The present invention relates generally to communications, and more particularly, to a system and a method for analyzing a user's collection of communications, such as electronic mail messages, telephone messages, voicemails, instant messaging dialogues and telephone logs to determine the identity of contacts within the communications, the relative priority of the contacts within the communications and any relationships between the contacts themselves and between the contacts and the user.
The ever-growing variety of mass communication devices and services such as wireless telephones, pagers, portable computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), set top boxes, electronic mail, and instant messaging among others, has exponentially increased the number of different types of communications that one may receive on a daily basis. As a result, it has become very difficult to track one's personal and professional contacts since after even a short period of time, one could have hundreds of unique communications, such as electronic mail messages and voicemails to sort through.
Accordingly, it would be desirable to be able to easily analyze a collection of communications, such as electronic mail messages, to determine the identity of one's personal and professional contact, the relative priorities of these contacts and any existing relationship between and among these contacts.
The invention provides a method for processing user communications to determine identities of contacts within the communications, to prioritize the relative importance of the contacts identified and to establish any relationships between the contacts themselves and between the contacts and the user. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of receiving a plurality of communication files, wherein the communication files include a plurality of different contacts, reviewing the plurality of communication files to determine contact identities, contact priorities and relationships and providing an analysis of the communication files, wherein the analysis provides the identities of contacts identified in the communication files, the relative importance of contacts relative to one another and any relationships between two or more contacts.
In the present invention, a contact may be refer to an individual person, a company, a group of individual people, an organization, an electronic mail listing or any combination or variations of the aforementioned. Contacts may be related to a user's personal life, workplace or other social networks. Typically, the user will specify a directory, folder or other repository which contains the communications, such as the electronic mail messages to be analyzed. A communications or message processor will receive the communications and from these communications, determine at least the identity of the contacts and their relative priority to one another to the user. For example, contacts which engage in frequent, reciprocal communications with the user are rated or assigned a higher priority than contacts which only engage in one-way communications with the user. Though the sheer number of communications a contact may have with the user is relevant in determining the contact priority, the reciprocal nature of the communications is more indicative as to the importance of the communications.
In one embodiment of the present invention, contacts which are frequently mentioned or “co-mentioned” within communication may also be classified as being related to a similar grouping or network in relation to the user. For example, co-workers who frequently copy each other on electronic mail message may be considered to be part of a single grouping of contacts.
The present invention provides a system and method for analyzing a user's communications, such as electronic mail messages, voicemail messages, instant messages, telephone logs and other such communications. The communications are analyzed to determine the identity of any contacts within the communications, the priority of the contacts within the communications and any inferred relationships between the contacts themselves and between the contact(s) and the user. As used herein, the term contact is used to refer to an individual person, a company, a group of individual people, an organization, an electronic mail listing or a combination of the aforementioned with which a user may communicate and/or receive communications from. For example, a user's colleagues in a work environment may be considered contacts as well as members of a user's family may be considered contacts. Contacts may also be part of and classified into contact groupings, such as related contacts in a family grouping or colleagues in a work grouping.
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In one embodiment of the present invention, the communications analysis process may be accomplished by initially having a user provide or specify one or more electronic mail folders to process. Once the electronic mail folders are specified, electronic mail message header information from the electronic mail messages are analyzed to determine a relative importance of entities or contacts mentioned in the messages. For electronic mail messages, the header fields, such as the to:, from:, cc:, and bcc: fields may be analyzed to determine which contacts are mentioned or referenced in the messages. In one embodiment, greater priority/weight is attached to contacts who engage in frequent, reciprocal communication (i.e., the user responds to messages from the contact and vice versa), as opposed to if the user sends or receives communications without any reciprocity.
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In the present invention, it is contemplated that users can process their communication files, such as their electronic mail messages, via the communications analysis process described herein at any time to create a contact network or incrementally update their contact network display. For example, the message or communications processing may be used to identify new contacts within a user's electronic mail messages and possibly add these new contacts to the user's workspace. Such an updating is best performed at some incremental time interval to ensure that the user's contact network contains the most updated set of contacts.
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In one embodiment, the system message processing or communications analysis determines whether or not contacts are mentioned in the header fields of the same electronic mail message. For example, if two people are repeatedly mentioned in the “to:” field of an electronic mail message header from a given contact, then an inference may be made that there is a relationship between that contact and the two co-mentioned people. This information about relationships has two potential benefits: (a) it allows the construction of groups, with straightforward addressing since instead of having to set up electronic mail aliases for groups a user repeatedly communicates with, these groups may be detected automatically and can be used for rapid addressing of messages to multiple individuals; (b) co-mentions may be useful in guiding contact layout, e.g. with co-mentioned contacts being near one another in the initial automatic layout configuration of the user's workspace display. In another embodiment of the present invention, co-mentions may be determined by determining whether a contact routinely forwards a message from another contact to the user or vice versa. In such a case, the contact from which the forwarded message originated, may be considered to be related to the contact which forwarded the message and/or also the user. Referring back to
In one embodiment of the present invention, importance ranking of contact(s) may be represented as a linear equation using the following weightings on the above criteria:
Importance score=Kx1+Lx2+Mx3+Nx4,
where
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In the present invention, any number of scoring schemes may be used to rate or prioritize contacts based on the communications processing discussed herein. For example, a 1 to 300 scale may be used, a 1 to 10 scale may also be used as well as an A-Z rating scheme. Rating points or allocations may be provided to a contact in also a number of different manners. For example, a contact may be assigned or awarded a single point for every piece of communication, i.e. electronic mail message, voicemail message, instant message, etc. that the contact participated in with the user. For example, if a certain contact sent ten electronic mail messages to the user, the contact will be awarded 10 point under this exemplary scoring scheme. The contact's cumulative score may be adjusted by a number of factors, such as by increasing the score if the contact and the user engaged in reciprocal rather than one-way communications. The term “one-way” communications being defined as if the contact sent the user certain communications, but the user never responded to the communications, such as may be the case in terms of “SPAM” or unsolicited electronic mail. Using another exemplary rating or scoring scheme, the contact score may be modified based on certain portions of the communication's content, for example, if the content of a message is determined to have many informal, slang, or otherwise colloquial uses of language in the message content, the contact may be considered to be a personal rather than a business or professional contact and then rated higher or lower accordingly depending on the preferences of the user.
In implementing the teachings of the present invention, it is preferable to develop the system and method herein with an object-oriented structure which may be written in an object-oriented language such as Java. One exemplary implementation may include a set of higher-level user interface components on top of an underlying persistent contact-based data layer and message analysis component. Data objects may be strictly separated from their display to allow multiple display components to display the same underlying data. The Java delegation event model may be used to allow user interface components to easily track changes to underlying data objects. Java object serialization may also be used to persistently store contact information. Referring to
It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that many changes and substitutions can be made to the system and method described herein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. For example, natural language analysis techniques and programs that analyze, for example, electronic mail messages, may be used. Additionally, voice recognition analysis techniques and programs may also be used to analyze the communications, such as voicemail messages. For example, voice recognition analysis may be used to convert voicemail messages into text. The text may then be processed to extract certain contact information from the text, such as contact names, numbers, etc.
The present application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/323,601, filed Jul. 3, 2014, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/290,827, filed Nov. 4, 2008, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/979,960, filed on Nov. 3, 2004 now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,454,470, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/726,912, filed Nov. 30, 2000 now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 6,832,245, which claims the benefit of and priority to U.S. patent application No. 60/168,242 filed Dec. 1, 1999. Each of the aforementioned patent(s) and application(s) is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
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