Patent ID: 9058376
Filing Date: 2015-06-16
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for assigning relevance scores to message elements, the method comprising: providing a structured collection of message elements stored in a data repository, the collection of message elements comprising: a plurality of messages elements, wherein each message element comprises a message content and metadata, the metadata including an author identity and a timestamp, and a plurality of oriented child-parent links each connecting a message element to an older message element called parent message element, so that each message element within the plurality of message elements is connected by a child-parent link to a parent message element within the plurality of message elements, parsing the message contents of the plurality of message elements to generate appreciative phrase marks assigned to the message elements, generating a graph of authors comprising a collection of author nodes corresponding to the author identities comprised in the plurality of message elements and a collection of oriented regard links each associated to a respective appreciative phrase mark, wherein a regard link associated to an appreciative phrase mark originates from an author node corresponding to the author identity of the later message element comprising the regard-expressing phrase and points to an author node corresponding to the author identity of the earlier message element to which the appreciative phrase mark is assigned, and applying a link-based rank computation method to the graph of authors to determine link-based ranks of the author nodes, wherein the relevance score of a message element is computed as a function of the link-based rank of the author node corresponding to the author identity of the message element.