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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:
Oct. 21, 2014

Filed:

Apr. 27, 2004
Applicants:

Amit Bagga, Green Brook, NJ (US);

Ani N. Nenkova, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Amit Bagga, Green Brook, NJ (US);

Ani N. Nenkova, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Avaya Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 17/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/107 (2013.01); G06F 17/27 (2013.01); G06F 17/30684 (2013.01); G06F 17/2247 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and apparatus are provided for summarizing a text message, such as an email message or a transcribed audio message. A portion of each text message, such as a sentence, is extracted as an indicative summary of the text message based on a degree of overlap of words in the sentence with a set of words, such as words in the message subject or words in a related root message. The extracted portion is based on a score for each portion of the text message, such as a sentence. An interface is also provided for presenting the indicative summaries of a set of related text messages to a user.


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