Patent ID: 8239460

Claim:
A system that provides tags for e-mail and syndicated content communication, the system comprising: at least one memory; at least one processor; components having executable instructions stored in the at least one memory and executed by the at least one processor, the components comprising: a receiver component that accepts a transmission of an instance of e-mail or syndicated content communication; a filtering component that analyzes at least one most recently used (MRU) sender information tag utilized with prior items of communication provided by a sender of the instance of communication, at least one MRU recipient information tag utilized with prior received items of communication by multiple recipients of the instance of communication and one or more weighted portions of the instance of communication and generates one or more information tags for the instance of communication based in part on the analyzing, wherein: the one or more weighted portions of the instance of communication comprise at least one of a subject line or a portion of content of the instance of communication; the one or more information tags are descriptive of and classify the instance of communication; and the one or more information tags are determined based at least in part on determining an associated relevance factor for the one or more information tags, the associated relevance factor indicating a degree to which a corresponding one of the one or more information tags are descriptive and representative of the instance of communication, the associated relevance factor being determined at least in part by: computing a frequency of occurrence of the corresponding one of the one or more information tags within the instance of communication; and computing an association between the at least one MRU sender information tag, the at least one MRU recipient information tag and the one or more weighted portions of the instance of communication; and a tagging component that attaches or includes the one or more information tags with the instance of communication.