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Email manager

A technology of e-mail, e-mail system, applied in the field of electronic message communication

Inactive Publication Date: 2005-12-07
MICROSOFT CORP
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[0017] The various email managers and related technologies proposed by the present invention apply computing power to sifting through and organizing email in your inbox—especially new, unread email messages (i.e., "email messages"). ” or just “mail”)—the task. As inboxes grow with increasing volumes of daily unread email, tools are needed to enable users to quickly sort through and review their email. The exemplary email manager described herein assists these users in the task of finding and organizing valuable email in their inbox amidst the "noise" generated by graymail and spam.

[0018] The exemplary email manager provides an interface tool that presents emails to the user by category. In one implementation, the exemplary email manager is a wizard-like tool that clears the displayed inbox, subdivides the user's mail into categories, prioritizes those categories according to importance, and then clicks Importance order displays email categories one at a time to provide ma...

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An email manager for an inbox directs emails to various categories based on importance assigned by an email recipient and provides a user interface for presenting emails to the recipient in groups prioritized by importance. In one implementation importance is based on the sending source and in one implementation importance is based on content.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates generally to electronic messaging, and more particularly to email managers. Background technique [0002] Executives, receptionists, and even home computer users may be faced with hundreds of new e-mails accumulating in their inboxes upon returning from an extended vacation, or even an absence the night before. If an active e-mail address falls into the hands of spammers or unsolicited syndicated advertisers, those computer users may also be faced with hundreds of unopened e-mails. [0003] FIG. 1 shows a typical conventional email inbox 100 . Each unread email is represented in the inbox 100 as a single line of text that typically includes the email sender, subject line, date, and size. Unread email conventionally resides in the inbox 100 as a random mix of important email, personal communications from friends, neutral messages from safe senders, articles, advertisements, and spam. [0004] For many executives and rece...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06F13/00G06Q10/00
CPCG06Q10/107
Inventor C·R·利特尔二世
Owner MICROSOFT CORP
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