Crowd determined message response system
View Patent ↗A crowd determined message response system may be provided. A message sent from a sender to at least one recipient over a communication network may be received. The message may be presented on a user interface device. A selection of a designated recipient for responding to the message may be received. A priority of the message sent to the designated recipient may be adjusted. The priority of the message sent to an unselected recipient of the message not selected as the designated recipient may be adjusted. The priority may be adjusted differently for the designated recipient and the unselected recipient. Based on the adjusting of the priority of the message sent to the unselected recipient, the order of importance in which the unselected recipient's messages are presented may be rearranged.
1. A method of providing a crowd determined message response system, comprising:
receiving, by a messaging application executing on a processor, a message sent from a sender to at least one recipient over a communication network;
receiving, by the messaging application, from said at least one recipient a selection via an input device, of a designated recipient for responding to the message, the message addressed to a list of recipients, the recipient being one of the recipients in the list;
adjusting a priority of the message sent to the designated recipient; and
adjusting the priority of the message sent to an unselected recipient of the message in the list not selected as the designated recipient, wherein the priority of the message is adjusted differently for the designated recipient and the unselected recipient,
wherein based on the adjusting of the priority of the message sent to said unselected recipient, an order of importance in which said unselected recipient's messages are presented is rearranged.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the unselected recipient comprises said at least one recipient.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the adjusting the priority of the message sent to the unselected recipient comprises lowering the priority of the message sent to the unselected recipient, wherein the message is presented to the unselected recipient with less priority than other messages sent to the unselected recipient.
4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the message is displayed at a bottom of a message list associated with the unselected recipient.
5. The method of claim 3 , wherein the message is hidden from a display of a message list associated with the unselected recipient.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the adjusting the priority of the message sent to the designated recipient comprises giving a higher priority to the message than other messages of the designated recipient.
7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the message is displayed to the designated recipient with higher priority than said other messages of said designated recipient.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the designated recipient is included in a distribution list of the message.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the adjusting a priority of the message sent to the designated recipient comprises updating a weight associated with the message as pertains to the designated recipient.
10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the adjusting the priority of the message sent to the unselected recipient comprises updating a weight associated with the message as pertains to the unselected recipient.
11. The method of claim 1 , wherein each of the designated recipient and unselected recipient's messages has associated index of weights.
12. The method of claim 1 , further comprising sending a notification to the designated recipient that the designated recipient is selected to respond to the message.
13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the priority of the message is adjusted differently for the designated recipient and the unselected recipient by giving a higher priority to the message than other messages in the designated recipient's inbox, while lowering the priority of the message than other messages in the unselected recipient's inbox.