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Patent No.:

US 9571437 B1

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Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017

Filed:

Jun. 15, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Al Chakra, Apex, NC (US);

Liam Harpur, Skerries, IE;

Michelle M. Purcell, Tullamore, IE;

John Rice, West Pennant Hills, AU;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/14 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2013.01); H04L 29/08072 (2013.01); H04L 51/34 (2013.01); H04L 67/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

Responsive to each of a plurality recipients of an electronic communication accessing the electronic communication and accessing information that is associated with the electronic communication but not contained in a body of the electronic communication, activity information relating to activities of respective electronic communication recipients accessing information associated with the electronic communication can be received. A request to receive at least one recommendation as to who is able to provide information pertaining to the electronic communication can be received from another electronic communication recipient. Responsive to receiving the request, each of the electronic communication recipients can be rated to generate at least one recommendation as to who is able to provide information pertaining to the electronic communication, the recommendation based, at least in part, on the received activity information and respective weighted attributes. The recommendation can be communicated to other electronic communication recipient.


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