Patent ID: 8392409

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for generating information displays associated with electronic messages, the method comprising: in response to a search query having one or more tokens, categorizing, by a computer system, each e-mail in a plurality of received e-mails according to a plurality of categories, wherein the plurality of received e-mails comprise a plurality of determined regions; for each of the plurality of determined regions, determining, by the computer system, a region score that quantifies a term frequency of at least one term in an e-mail relative to a weighted frequency of the at least one term in the determined region, wherein the at least one term corresponds to a token in the one or more tokens associated with the search query; determining, by the computer system, a relevance of each e-mail in the plurality of received e-mails to the one or more tokens associated with the search query based on a scoring formula aggregating a region score for each of the plurality of determined regions; and generating, by the computer system, information configured for displaying the plurality of received e-mails using a graphical user interface, wherein the information is configured according to the plurality of categories and the determined relevance of each e-mail in the plurality of received e-mails.