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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:
Jun. 12, 2018

Filed:

Dec. 23, 2014
Applicant:

Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jianqiang Shen, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Masafumi Suzuki, Mountain View, CA (US);

Oliver Brdiczka, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/12 (2013.01); H04L 51/22 (2013.01); H04L 51/26 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for prioritizing messages based on message importance is provided. Messages from one or more senders are received for a recipient. For each message, an identity of the sender is determined. A determination is made as to whether each message includes a request for an action to be performed. Also, a length of time required to read that message is determined for each message. An importance value for each message is then calculated based on the identity of the sender, whether a request is included in the message, and the length of time to read the message. Those messages with high importance values are identified as high priority messages and are provided to the recipient.


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