Patent ID: 7412483

Claim:
A system for organizing email, comprising: a modeler operable to infer a temporal sequential process from a corpus of unlabeled email messages, wherein said temporal sequential process comprises a finite state machine; a categorizer operable to accept an incoming message and map said incoming message to a transition in said temporal sequential process; a first visualizer operable to display a representation of said temporal sequential process, wherein said visualizer is operable to display a representation of a progression through said temporal sequential process, said progression comprising a change in said temporal sequential process; a predictor operable to predict a future message based on a progression through said temporal sequential process; and a second visualizer operable to display a representation of said future message, wherein said modeler performs: extracting a selected characteristic from each message; creating at least one group containing at least one message which exhibits said selected characteristics; and adding an ungrouped message into a group selected from said at least one group based on the temporal proximity of said ungrouped message and messages within said at least one group.