Email Manager Program Automates Message Grouping and Prioritization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Managing and organizing emails is a laborious and time-consuming process, especially when dealing with similar or urgent messages, as users must manually attend to each email individually, which is inefficient and requires significant time and effort.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that utilize a manager program to analyze and categorize incoming emails based on their data parameters, prioritize them, and provide predictive user actions, such as creating templates for similar emails, to streamline email management by automatically grouping similar emails and suggesting actions based on previous user behavior.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If manual email management is used, then users can handle each email individually with full control, but the process becomes laborious and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of email managementVSAvoidtime required for email management
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables emails to manage themselves through automated analysis and grouping. The processor automatically analyzes incoming emails, identifies similarities, and groups them without requiring manual user intervention for each email, allowing the system to serve itself in organizing and prioritizing the email queue.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides multiple functions within a single email management platform: automatic email analysis, similarity detection, grouping of related emails, priority assignment, and template generation. This multi-functional approach replaces multiple manual operations with a unified automated system that handles various email management tasks simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Reliability

If users manually attend to each email individually, then complete attention can be given to each message, but significant time and effort are required

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveattention to email processingVSAvoidemail processing efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges multiple similar emails into single grouped items in the email queue. By combining emails with similar characteristics, data, or requirements into unified groups, the system maintains complete attention to each unique issue while processing multiple emails simultaneously, thereby improving productivity without sacrificing reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary analysis and grouping of emails before the user needs to process them. By pre-organizing emails into logical groups and assigning priorities in advance, the system prepares the email queue for efficient processing, reducing the time and effort required during actual email handling while ensuring thorough attention to each grouped item.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Ease of operation

If similar emails are processed individually, then each email receives dedicated handling, but the process is inefficient and repetitive

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveemail handling simplicityVSAvoidemail processing speed
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system identifies emails with similar characteristics, content, or requirements and merges them into single grouped items in the queue. This merging maintains the simplicity of handling each unique email type while dramatically improving processing speed by allowing users to address multiple similar emails through a single action or response template.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS9894026B2Automatic and predictive management of electronic messages
Publication Date: 2018.02.13 HCL TECH LTD
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AI summary

A first email is received. If the first email is similar to at least one received email is determined. Responsive to the determination, an action for the first email is provided. The action is the same as an action taken for the similar at least one received.