Automated email activity management
View Patent ↗A system for organizing email comprising: (a) a modeler operable to infer a temporal sequential process from a corpus of unlabeled email messages; and (b) a categorizer operable to accept an incoming message and map the aforesaid incoming message to a transition in the aforesaid temporal sequential process.
1. A system for organizing email, comprising:
a modeler operable to infer a temporal sequential process from a corpus of unlabeled email messages,
wherein said temporal sequential process comprises a finite state machine;
a categorizer operable to accept an incoming message and map said incoming message to a transition in said temporal sequential process;
a first visualizer operable to display a representation of said temporal sequential process,
wherein said visualizer is operable to display a representation of a progression through said temporal sequential process, said progression comprising a change in said temporal sequential process;
a predictor operable to predict a future message based on a progression through said temporal sequential process; and
a second visualizer operable to display a representation of said future message,
wherein said modeler performs:
extracting a selected characteristic from each message;
creating at least one group containing at least one message which exhibits said selected characteristics; and
adding an ungrouped message into a group selected from said at least one group based on the temporal proximity of said ungrouped message and messages within said at least one group.