Patent Document ID: 9501763
Application ID: 12015322

Base Claim:
1. A method for social collaborative prioritization of messages in a messaging system, the method comprising: receiving a message from a sender as directed to a recipient; determining a value for a social collaborative criterion based upon a temporal factor between the sender and the recipient indicating a duration in which an associated message thread of messages between the sender and recipient has been active, the value being higher the longer the message thread has enjoyed continuous activity, the value being diminished responsive to when the message thread has gone inactive and when no responsive messages have been posted to the thread within a threshold period of time; transforming the value into a priority for the message; and, associating the priority with the message in the messaging system.

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Claim 9:
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the received message is selected from the group consisting of an e-mail, an instant message, a discussion forum posting and a wiki posting.