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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2001
Eric I. Horvitz, Kirkland, WA (US);
David O. Hovel, Bellevue, WA (US);
Andrew W. Jacobs, Seattle, WA (US);
Carl M. Kadie, Bellevue, WA (US);
Eric I. Horvitz, Kirkland, WA (US);
David O. Hovel, Bellevue, WA (US);
Andrew W. Jacobs, Seattle, WA (US);
Carl M. Kadie, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a system () and methodology () to enable a plurality of information associated with electronic messages, for example, to be automatically prioritized by a priorities system () for transmittal to a user or system. The priorities system () can employ classifiers () that can be explicitly and/or implicitly trained to prioritize one or more received messages () according to a learned importance to the user. As an example, messages () can be classified as high, medium, low or other degrees of importance via a training set of examples () or types of messages having similar degrees of importance. A background monitor () can be provided to monitor a user's activities regarding message processing to further refine or tune the classifier () according to the user's personal decisions relating to message importance. Other priorities classifications can involve determinations relating to a loss associated with a time for delayed review or processing of the message.