Patent ID: 9647970
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method of sorting promotional electronic mail (email) by a promotional email sorter, the method comprising: receiving a set of emails; identifying, in the body of a first email of the set of emails, a set of two or more dates; parsing the body of the first email to identify a set of words associated with a first date in the set of two or more dates; retrieving from a database, using the set of words, contextual information associating a context to at least the first date; determining, that the first date is a promotional expiration date based on the contextual information; determining, using a tailoring algorithm and the promotional expiration date, an order for placing the first email in a list of one or more promotional emails, wherein the tailoring algorithm is adapted to user preferences for ordering and displaying the list using machine learning and feedback information obtained from users and stored in a historical database; placing the first email into the list according to the determined order; checking a current calendar date; excluding a second email from the list in response to the current calendar date being chronologically after the promotional expiration date; and displaying the list based on the exclusion of the second email.