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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2018

Filed:

Mar. 23, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Saurabh Gupta, Durham, NC (US);

Sandeep Perumbuduri, Morrisville, NC (US);

Nancy A. Schipon, Apex, NC (US);

Jack P. Yapi, Knightdale, NC (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/10 (2013.01); G06Q 10/107 (2013.01); H04L 51/16 (2013.01); H04L 51/32 (2013.01);
Abstract

Provided are techniques for presenting a visual representation of an email thread, comprising organizing a plurality of emails in an email system with respect to a plurality of parties; organizing the plurality of emails with respect to an email thread to produce thread information; correlating the plurality of parties with thread information to produce a condensed tree structure to represent plurality of parties and the plurality of emails, wherein each node of a plurality of nodes of the condensed tree structure represents one corresponding party of the plurality of parties; and rendering the condensed tree structure on a computer display.


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