Patent ID: 8645430

Claim:
An apparatus for automated generation of subject line content for multi-field e-mail messages having a body field and a subject line field holding the subject line content summarizing text-based data in the body field, the apparatus comprising: an input operable to receive content data including text-based information corresponding to a body of an originally received e-mail message and a newly composed e-mail message responsive to the originally received e-mail message; a memory configured to store the content data; a text analyzer including logic operable to analyze received content data; a topic extractor including logic operable to extract topic data in accordance with an output of the text analyzer; a string generator including logic operable to generate subject line data in accordance with the topic data extracted by the topic extractor; and a message output operable to output a multi-field e-mail message having a body field inclusive of the content data received by the input and a subject line field inclusive of the subject line data generated by the string generator; wherein the subject line field contains aggregated summaries of a body field of the originally received e-mail message and of a body field of the newly composed e-mail message.