Patent ID: 8499051

Claim:
A method for use of a communication system, comprising: storing a plurality of portions of message data in machine readable format on at least one storage device, said plurality of portions of message data corresponding to messages exchanged via one or more electronic messaging modalities; performing a semantic analysis on said plurality of portions of message data; identifying, based on said semantic analysis, at least two related portions of said plurality of portions of message data; representing corresponding content of each said plurality of portions of message data as a vector; and notifying a user of said at least two related portions by way of a notice provided on a user interface; wherein performing said semantic analysis includes evaluating a relationship between at least a first vector and a second vector, said relationship describes the relatedness of said first vector and said second vector and performing a distance analysis with respect to said first vector and said second vector; and wherein said identifying is based on said relationship such that if said relationship exceeds a threshold value, a first portion of message data corresponding to said first vector and a second portion of message data corresponding to said second vector comprise said at least two related portions.