Patent ID: 8296678
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of identifying type-ahead candidates, comprising the steps of: analyzing past non-threaded emails or documents for words or phrases, wherein the emails or documents are in files and folders associated with an application; generating a database of the words or phrases and corresponding addressee information within the past non-threaded emails or documents having matching subject matter; receiving in a current email or document of the application one or more characters to provide a basis to determine a match; analyzing the current email or document for current words or phrases; determining matches between the current words or phrases within the current email or document and one or more words or phrases in the database; identifying, based on the determined matches, one or more of the corresponding addressee information of the past non-threaded emails or documents; matching the identified corresponding addressee information with the one or more received characters to identify one or more candidate words; presenting the one or more candidate words to a user on a personal computer as type-ahead choices; providing the one or more candidate words based on the results of the matching step; and presenting and including a selected one of the one or more candidate words in the current email or document, wherein the analyzing the past non-threaded emails or documents comprises: wherein the method further comprises: wherein analyzing the current email or document comprises: wherein: