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System and method for prioritizing communications messages
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Inventors: Voticky, Michael; Conner, Joe;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Harrell; Robert B.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP
A method of sorting a received information message in which a source of delivery of the message is indicated by a unique identifier accompanying the message, for example, in an e-mail or voice message system. The method includes steps of receiving the message, looking-up the identifier in a database, assigning a code for the message per the result of the step of looking-up, and prioritizing or forwarding the message according to the code. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION An embodiment of the invention is a method of sorting a received information message.
A source of delivery of the message is indicated by a unique identifier accompanying the message.
The method includes steps of receiving the message, looking-up the identifier in a database, assigning a code for the message per the result of the step of looking-up, and prioritizing the message according to the code.
Another embodiment of the invention is a system for sorting a received information message.
A source of delivery of the message is indicated by a unique identifier accompanying the message.
The system includes a database maintaining known identifiers and desired codes corresponding to the known identifiers.
The system also includes a designated code different from the desired codes.
The system includes means for receiving the message, means for looking-up the unique identifier in the database to determine whether the unique identifier is the same as any of the known identifiers in the database, a data code, the data code is either: (i) if the unique identifier is the same as one of the known identifiers, the one of the desired codes that corresponds to the one of the known identifiers in the database that is the same as the unique identifier, or (ii) otherwise, the data code is the designated code, means for assigning the data code for the message, and means for prioritizing the message according to the data code.
Another embodiment of the invention is a computer-readable medium of instructions.
The computer-readable medium of instructions includes a message, a unique identifier corresponding to the message, means for receiving the message and the unique identifier, a database containing known identifiers and desired codes respectively corresponding to the known identifiers, a designated code, means for looking-up the unique identifier in the database to determine whether the unique identifier is the same as any of the known identifiers in the database, a data code, the data code is either: (i) if the unique identifier is the same as one of the known identifiers, the one of the desired codes that corresponds to the one of the known identifiers in the database that is the same as the unique identifier, or (ii) otherwise, the designated code, means for assigning the data code for the message, and means for prioritizing the message according to the data code
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