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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2000
Patrick Mcerlean, Portglenone, GB;
Patrick McErlean, Portglenone, GB;
ART Technology Group, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
An electronic message processing system includes a classification module for classifying electronic messages, such as e-mails and SMS messages, into one or more categories according to their content. In a preferred embodiment, a text analyzer is used to apply a sequence of one or more rule sets to the content of each message. The rule sets to be applied and their order in the sequence is determined by a hierarchical structure. The use of the hierarchical structure reduces the number of rules which must be applied to a given message. Arranging the rules in sets facilitates administration and maintenance of the rules. A further aspect of the invention involves the instantiation of multiple instances of the text analyzer, one instance for each rule set. This allows an appropriate lexical analysis tool, such as a dictionary in an appropriate language, to be used in conjunction with each rule set.