Patent ID: 7716217

Claim:
A computer-implemented system for determining a relevance score of a piece of electronic content sent from a sender to a user, the relevance score determined with respect to the user, the computer-implemented system comprising: a computer processor; and a computer-readable storage medium storing computer program modules configured to execute on the computer processor, the computer program modules comprising: a monitoring module configured to track actions by a plurality of users associated with an application for managing electronic content; a first relevance measurement module coupled to the monitoring module and configured to determine a first measure of relevance of the piece of electronic content based at least in part on one or more actions of the user on the piece of electronic content; a second relevance measurement module coupled to the monitoring module and configured to: identify at least one other of the plurality of users that is a recipient of the piece of electronic content and that is cognate to the user, and determine a second measure of relevance of the piece of electronic content as based at least in part on one or more measures derived from the group consisting of: a local importance describing an importance of the sender to the user, a global importance describing an importance of the sender within an organization with which the plurality of users are associated, a content relevance determined responsive to content of the piece of electronic content, and one or more actions on the piece of electronic content of the at least one other of the plurality of users that is a recipient of the piece of electronic content and that is cognate to the user; and a relevance analysis module configured to determine the relevance score of the piece of electronic content sent from the sender to the user, the relevance score being determined based at least in part on the first determined measure of relevance and on the second determined measure of relevance.