Patent ID: 11895074
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. A system for ranking email messages, the system comprising:
one or more processors;
memory in electronic communication with the one or more processors; and
instructions stored in the memory, the instructions being executable by the one or more processors to:
receive an email message directed to a user and to recipients;
receive actions of the recipients with respect to the email message;
access a network graph, wherein the network graph indicates distances between the user and each of the recipients and the distances represent a measure of closeness of connection between the user and each of the recipients;
assign a score to the email message based on the actions and the distances; and
provide the score to a client device of the user for display of a preview of the email message among previews of other email messages in an order that is based on the score.