Contextual-based high precision search for mail systems

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10599693-B2
Application number	US-201916393555-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 24, 2019
Priority date	May 12, 2017
Publication date	Mar 24, 2020
Grant date	Mar 24, 2020

Abstract

A method, computer system, and computer program product for contextually searching an electronic mail system is provided. The embodiment may include generating a contextual language set based on a language tag assigned to each electronic mail message within an electronic mailbox, whereby the generated contextual language set includes a first language and a second language. The embodiment may also include receiving a search term. The embodiment may further include identifying the received search term is drafted in the first language. The embodiment may also include generating a root character string of the identified search term. The embodiment may further include executing a search query of electronic mail messages within the electronic mailbox drafted in the first language using the generated root character string. The embodiment may also include executing a search query of electronic mail messages within the electronic mailbox drafted in the second language using the identified search term.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer system for collecting a plurality of online group chat messages, the computer system comprising:
one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories, one or more computer-readable tangible storage medium, and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more tangible storage medium for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, wherein the computer system is capable of performing a method comprising:
generating, by a processor, a contextual language set based on a language tag assigned to each electronic mail message within an electronic mailbox, wherein the generated contextual language set comprises a first language and a second language, wherein a name of the contextual language set is recorded as an abbreviation of the first language and the second language;
indexing the received plurality of electronic mail messages in a global inverted index table, wherein each word or phrase within each electronic mail message and a corresponding location of each word or phrase is isolated and logged in the global inverted index table;
receiving a search term from a user desiring to identify one or more indexed terms within a global inverted index table, wherein the received search term is in natural language syntax, and wherein the received search term is entered by the user through a touchscreen monitor;
identifying the received search term is drafted in the first language by identifying one or more keywords from the natural language syntax by isolating one or more important words or phrases;
generating a root character string of the identified search term;
executing a search query of a plurality of electronic mail messages within the electronic mailbox drafted in the first language using the generated root character string;
executing, simultaneously to the search query of the plurality of electronic mail messages in the first language, a search query of a plurality of electronic mail messages within the electronic mailbox drafted in the second language using the identified search term;
receiving a plurality of search results for each executed search query;
generating a complete search query result set based on merging each received plurality of search results; and
displaying the generated complete search query result set to the user on a display screen of a user device.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Sun Pei
• Li Shu Qiang
• Pei Na
• Lu wei guo

Classifications

• G06Q10/107

  Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing] · CPC title

• G06F40/263

  Language identification · CPC title

• G06F16/3344

  using natural language analysis · CPC title

• G06F16/334 Primary

  Query execution (filtering based on additional data G06F16/335) · CPC title

• G06F17/275

  Physics · mapped topic