Patent ID: 7720916

Claim:
A system that facilitates ordering a user's information based on past personal interactions of the user comprising: a processor component that includes a metric aggregator that determines and aggregates one or more social metrics derived from at least a subset of social metadata associated with the information; and a display component that presents at least one view of at least a subset of the information in an order based on at least one social metric; wherein the social metric is a quantifiable relationship between the user and at least one correspondent of the user based on a history of communication between the user and the at least one correspondent of the user, and wherein the one or more social metrics comprise the following attributes: a number of messages sent to each correspondent from the user; a number of replies to each correspondent from the user; a number of messages sent to each correspondent from other correspondents and not the user; a number of messages sent to the user from each correspondent; a number of replies sent to the user; a number of messages marked read; a number of messages marked unread; and a number of messages courtesy copied to the user.