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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2017
Verizon Media Inc., New York, NY (US);
Liane Lewin-Eytan, Haifa, IL;
Irena Grabovitch-Zuyev, Haifa, IL;
Noa Avigdor-Elgrabli, Haifa, IL;
Yoelle Maarek, Haifa, IL;
VERIZON MEDIA INC., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods automatically perform an implicit message search without requiring or actually receiving a user search query. The disclosed search framework automatically identifies of a set of messages in a mailbox that are related to a specific message m, and this message set is presented to the user from within the mailbox. The message set is retrieved without a user formulating and entering a search query, or without having to switch the state of the mailbox. The retrieved messages are provided as a type of 'thread' functionality that provides a 'thread' for those messages having related subject matter to message m.