Patent Document ID: 8234287
Application ID: 12236812

Base Claim:
1. A system for sorting records based on free text field content, comprising: a processor; a storage facility that stores free text field sorting results; a memory having stored thereon a utility which executes on the processor to provide the functions of: receiving a request by a sort function to sort a free text field; intercepting the sort function request; analyzing content in the free text field by: removing noise words; and sorting content of the free text field based on word frequency and word commonness; identifying one or more new focus words from results of said analyzing content in the free text field, wherein the new focus words are initially displayed in non-uniform positions within the free text field, and wherein the new focus words are identified by executing a clustering algorithm to identify significant words in said free text field; highlighting the new focus words; sorting the new focus words alphabetically; and displaying sorted free text field results based on the new focus words.

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Claim 7:
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the free text field is a set of e-mail subject lines.