Patent Document ID: 9143468
Application ID: 13736634

Base Claim:
1. A method for identifying relevant messages in a conversation graph, comprising: a) identifying, by a computer processor, a context message within the conversation graph; b) marking, by the computer processor, the context message as relevant; c) identifying, by the computer processor, a plurality of authors of messages marked as relevant; d) identifying, by the computer processor and in the conversation graph, a plurality of unmarked messages authored by the plurality of authors; e) marking, by the computer processor, the plurality of unmarked messages as relevant; f) identifying, by the computer processor and in the conversation graph, a plurality of parent messages of messages marked as relevant; g) marking, by the computer processor, the plurality of parent messages as relevant; and h) providing a list comprising the messages marked as relevant.

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Claim 9:
9. The method of claim 1 wherein the identifying a context message within the conversation graph is by one of a message selected by a user, a message including one of a specific keyword and a topic, a message returned in response to a search request, a message associated with an advertisement, and a message included in a conversation graph.