PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15950370
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["709", "206000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems are enclosed herein for automatically managing email communication between a group of users and a group of target prospects. A sequence of outbound emails is automatically sent on behalf of a user to a prospect. Based upon the prospect's inbound replies (or lack thereof) the system will perform preconfigured actions, such as stopping automated communications and deferring to the user for manual action.

Claim (Index 17):
A method for automatically managing email communication between a plurality of users and a plurality of prospects, comprising the steps of:\n storing information concerning a plurality of known prospects, and the plurality of users, in a database; receiving a plurality of email messages, including email messages from the plurality of prospects, and extracting metadata from an email message when it is received; determining whether one or more users are associated with the email message, and if so, which users are associated with the email message, based upon a comparison of said metadata with information stored in the database concerning the plurality of users; determining whether one or more prospects are associated with the email message, and which prospects are associated with the email message, by examining said metadata for an email address that matches an email address stored in said database corresponding to a known prospect, and if no match is found, by determining whether the name of the sender of the email message matches the name of the known prospect, or said metadata includes an email thread containing a reference corresponding to information stored in the database associated with the known prospect; in an event that the email message is determined to be associated with a prospect of the plurality of known prospects, determining a classification for the email message by searching for data corresponding to a message-ID stored in the database, and if a corresponding message-ID is found, setting the classification for the email message as a reply, by searching for data corresponding to textual metadata stored in the database, and if corresponding textual metadata is found, setting the classification for the email message as a reply, by searching for data matching an identical subject and recipient corresponding to a previous message delivery, and if such identical subject and recipient are found, setting the classification for the email message as a reply; in an event that an email message is determined to not be associated with the plurality of known prospects, storing said metadata concerning the email message without storing contents of the email message; and storing the plurality of email messages in the database only once for each unique message-ID in order to eliminate duplicates of the email messages stored in the database.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.32727
- Patent Class: 709.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15379200', '12351842', '11619679', '12984728', '12351854']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2203393382432024
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4724615580754859
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2455515602264308
- Mean Citation Score: 151.28542199999995
- Max Citation Score: 159.92642
- Similarity Product: 118.8011036879182

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test