Patent ID: 7730141

Claim:
A method comprising: routing incoming objects to mutually exclusive destinations according to rating assigned to each incoming object, wherein a user defines in a user interface on a display of a computing device the mutually exclusive destinations to which incoming objects are routed based on the rating assigned to each incoming object, wherein the mutually exclusive destinations are defined by a plurality of contiguous ranges of the ratings, each range having a lower rating value and an upper rating value, the interface using a set of reference objects, each reference object having an assigned rating corresponding to only one of the destinations and having a user-defined label; receiving a changed value for a user-defined range from the user interface for routing new incoming objects to each mutually exclusive destination, wherein each incoming object routes to no more than one of the destinations, said user-defined range having a variable upper value and a variable lower value, such that if a user changes a value of the range, a value of a contiguous range is also changed as a result, wherein the receiving comprises allowing a user to move a slider control in the user interface with a selection device in per rating increments on a displayed graph, said graph indicating the number of reference emails per label per rating so that position of the slider defines the changed value for the user-defined range; in response to receiving the changed value for the user-defined range from the user interface, displaying a total number of reference objects for each destination as if each reference object was routed to one of the mutually exclusive destinations according to their assigned ratings and according to the changed value for the user-defined range, wherein for each particular destination the displaying indicates the number of reference objects having the user-defined label corresponding to the particular destination as if the reference objects were routed to the particular destination, and the number of reference objects having a user-defined label not corresponding to the particular destination as if the reference objects were routed to the particular destination, wherein said displaying indicates the impact the changed value would have had to routing the reference objects; implementing the plurality of ranges according to the changed values in response to receiving user action from the user interface to implement the changed values, such that future incoming objects are routed according to the implemented ranges; routing incoming objects to one of the mutually exclusive destinations according to the implemented plurality of ranges.