Patent ID: 6424997
Filing Date: 2002-07-23
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
A method of effecting one or more actions on an electronic message, comprising the steps of:receiving the electronic message including raw text data; providing a dictionary including words or phrases; analyzing the electronic message including the raw text data and the words or phrases; assigning one or more class labels and confidence levels to analyzed electronic message based on the words or phrases; and performing one or more actions on the electronic message based on the one or more class labels and confidence labels, wherein the confidence levels for classes are obtained from training data associated with those classes assigned to the electronic message, and wherein training on the training data includes the steps of: breaking the raw data of the training data into tokens; counting frequencies of the tokens in the training data; analyzing the tokens by at least one of filtering and weighting the tokens of the training data; and transforming the at least one of filtered and weighted tokens of the training data into vector format.