Patent ID: 8234344

Claim:
A non-transitory machine readable storage medium comprising instructions which when executed by the machine cause the machine to perform operations comprising: configuring metadata for one or more emails, the metadata including one or more attributes of the emails, the attributes describing one or more dimensions and corresponding one or more measures associated with the emails; based upon the attributes of the emails, creating a relationship map, the relationship map being a multidimensional structure including multiple axes, with each axis describing an attribute of the emails; parsing a received query to identify attributes of one or more relevant emails associated with the received query, the relevant emails being identified based upon an association of the attributes present in the relationship map with the received query; based upon the received query, computing a value for each attribute of the relevant emails present in the relationship map by computing a value for each dimension and corresponding measure of the relevant emails and aggregating the measures of one or more dimensions having one or more identical values; and based upon the values computed for each attribute present in the relationship map, rendering a resulting report comprising analytical view of information present in the relevant emails.