Patent ID: 11961108
Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 11:
12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium tangibly encoded with computer-executable instructions, that when executed by a processor associated with a messaging server, performs a method comprising:
receiving, at the messaging server over a network, content preference information from a user via a user interface (UI) of a messaging application operating on a device of the user and in communication with the messaging server, said content preference information identifying a user-specified interest of the user in a type of content to watch for in electronic messages addressed to an inbox of the user;
receiving, by the messaging server, an electronic message addressed to the inbox of the user, said electronic message comprising digital content;
analyzing, via the messaging server, said electronic message based on said content preference information identifying an interest of the user specified by the user via the UI, and based on said analysis, determining that the digital content included in said electronic message contains data that corresponds to the type of content of interest to the user identified by said content preference information specified by the user via the UI;
annotating, via the messaging server, said electronic message based on said determination, said annotation comprising modifying said electronic message prior to communication to said inbox of the user by adding a content type tag to the electronic message indicating that said digital content of said electronic message contains data that corresponds to the type of content of interest to the user identified by said content preference information;
executing, via the messaging server, a classification and regression software program on said digital content and determining, based on said execution, an identification of a context of the digital content, said context referencing a specific content or a categorical taxonomy; and
communicating, via the messaging server, to said inbox of said user, said modified message including the digital content containing the data and the added content type tag indicating that said digital content corresponds to the type of content identified by the content preference information as being of interest to the user for visual display at the inbox of the user in the UI of the messaging application, said communication of said modified message with the added content tag causing the modified message to be displayed in the inbox of the user in the UI in a manner that visually differentiates said modified message from other messages in the inbox that do not contain content corresponding to said type of content, said visual differentiation comprising the modified message display including visible information indicating that the electronic message contains data corresponding to the user-specified interest in the type of content based on said annotation so as to facilitate selection of the modified message without a need to perform a search of the inbox to locate messages having the particular type of content, wherein said communication is based on said determined identification of a context of the digital content.