Patent ID: 9059954
Filing Date: 2015-06-16
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for extracting indirect relational information from email correspondence, the method comprising: analyzing a set of email communications addressed to a first user to identify a subset of email communications within the set that each have a primary communication addressed to the first user and a thread of other email communications appended to the primary communication, the primary communication being more recent in time relative to the other email communications in the thread; analyzing a first email communication of the subset of email communications to identify at least a second user and a third user from the other email communications in the thread appended to the primary communication of the first email communication, the second user and the third user being unlisted as recipients of the primary communication of the first email communication; designating the second user and the third user as having a relationship that does not directly include the first user; and updating a relational database with the relationship between the second user and the third user.