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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2006
Kenji Kawai, Seattle, WA (US);
David T. Mcdonald, Seattle, WA (US);
Kenji Kawai, Seattle, WA (US);
David T. McDonald, Seattle, WA (US);
Attenex Corporation, Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for identifying messages in a message store is provided. At least part of metadata associated with and at least part of content contained in each of a plurality of messages in a message store are encoded by generating a metadata sequence and a content sequence for each message. The messages are grouped into sets by similar metadata sequences and similar content sequences. The messages in each set are compared. Each such message not matching any other such message in the set is marked as a unique message. Each such message matching at least one other such message in the set is marked as an exact duplicate message. Each such message including a subset of at least one other such message in the set is marked as a near duplicate message.