Patent ID: 8856135

Claim:
A method for processing emails, comprising: receiving a plurality of emails at an enterprise module, wherein each of the plurality of emails comprises message information and header information, the header information comprising subject information and one or more email addresses; filtering email data by removing one or more email addresses from the plurality of emails to generate filted email data based solely on email addresses, wherein the filtered email data is isolated from message information and subject information; correlating sender information and recipient information by processing the filtered email data to determine a relationship between a first person and a second person; grouping the first person and the second person based at least in part on the one or more email addresses, wherein grouping the first person and the second person comprises grouping a first email sent by the first person to the second person with a second email sent by the second person to the first person; ranking the relationship between the first person and the second person solely based on a quantity of emails sent between one or more email addresses associated with the first person and one or more email addresses associated with the second person; and storing in memory, from the filtered email data, one or more email addresses associated with the first person and one or more email address associated with the second person, wherein the message information and the subject information from the email data are not stored.