Patent ID: 9314699
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: A63F,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. In a networked computer system, a method for managing e-mail messages, the method comprising: retrieving, at a local machine, an e-mail message from an e-mail inbox associated with a user which is stored on a server that is in communication with the local machine via a network; providing, via a user interface on a display device associated with the local machine, the e-mail message to the user; providing, via the user interface on the display device associate with the local machine, the user with a plurality of actions which may be applied to the e-mail message; determining, via at least one processor at the server, an amount of time associated with each of said plurality of actions; determining, via the at least one processor at a server, that a user has selected one of said actions from the user interface; determining, via the at least one processor at a server, a score of performance for the user based, at least in part, on an amount of time elapsed between displaying the contents of the e-mail message and a time after selection of the action relative to said amount of time associated with the selected action; adding, via the-at least one processor at a server, the determined score of performance for the user to a total score of performance for the user; and providing, via the user interface on the display device associated with the local machine, positive feedback to the user at a time after the selection of an action wherein said positive feedback comprises at least one of: a statement, an image, a series of images, a video, an animation, the determined score of performance for the user, the total score of performance for the user, and audio.