Displaying at least one categorized message

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9953017-B2
Application number	US-201514704352-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 5, 2015
Priority date	May 5, 2015
Publication date	Apr 24, 2018
Grant date	Apr 24, 2018

Abstract

Displaying categorized messages includes categorizing at least one message into at least one category among a plurality of categories, displaying a number of messages in a dedicated portion of a display, the number of messages displayed being based on a current size of the dedicated portion of the display, wherein a specific message is selected for display based on a priority measure corresponding to the at least one category into which that specific message is categorized, and in response to a resizing of the dedicated portion of the display, selecting again a new number of messages to display in the dedicated portion based on a new size of the dedicated portion, and displaying the new number of messages, wherein a specific message is selected for display based on a priority measure corresponding to the at least one category into which that specific message is categorized.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for displaying at least one categorized message, the system comprising:
a processor;
memory, communicatively connected to the processor;
a display, communicatively connected to the processor; and
a message displaying system comprising:
a categorizing module to categorize at least one message into at least one category among a plurality of categories based on a set of rules associated with each category;
a prioritizing module to prioritize each category in the plurality of categories;
a selecting module to select a number of messages for display based on a priority measure corresponding to the at least one category into which the number of messages is categorized and a current size of a dedicated display portion, wherein at least one of the messages has a priority measure based on multiple categories corresponding to that message; and
a selecting again module, to select again, in response to a resizing of the dedicated portion of the display when a user changes a height or width of the dedicated portion of the display, a new number of messages to display in the dedicated portion based on a new size of the dedicated portion, and displaying the new number of messages, wherein a specific message of the new number of messages is selected for display based on again considering a priority measure corresponding to the at least one category into which that specific message is categorized;
wherein the set of rules associated with at least one of the categories indicates that at least one of the number of messages categorized into that category does not receive a priority measure from a different category.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein each category in the plurality of categories is created by applying a message filter associated with the category.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the specific message selected for display is further selected based on a plurality of categories associated with the specific message.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the resizing of the dedicated portion of the display comprises changing the dimensions of the dedicated portion of the display.

5. A computer program product to display categorized messages, the computer program product comprising:
a non-transitory tangible computer readable storage medium, said tangible computer readable storage medium comprising computer readable program code embodied therewith, said computer readable program code comprising program instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to:
categorize at least one message into at least one category among a plurality of categories based on a set of rules associated with each category;
prioritize each category in the plurality of categories;
select a number of messages for display based on a priority measure corresponding to the at least one category into which the number of message is categorized and a current size of a dedicated display portion, wherein at least one of the messages has a priority measure based on multiple categories corresponding to that message;
receive a notice indicating a change of size in the dedicated portion of the display; and
in response to a change of size of the dedicated portion of the display when a user changes a height or width of the dedicated portion of the display, select again a new number of messages to display in the dedicated portion based on a new size of the dedicated portion, and display the new number of messages, wherein a specific message of the new number of messages is selected for display based on again considering a priority measure corresponding to the at least one category into which that specific message is categorized;
wherein the set of rules associated with at least one category indicates that messages categorized into that category are assigned a priority measure based only on that category without considering additional membership in a different category.

6. The product of claim 5 , wherein each category in the plurality of categories is created by applying a message filter associated with the category.

7. The product of claim 6 , wherein each message filter is associated with a creation time, a modification time, a rule type, and a presentation rule.

8. The product of claim 5 , wherein the priority measure used to select a specific message for display further comprises the priority measure of a plurality of categories associated with the specific message.

9. The product of claim 5 , wherein the resizing of the dedicated portion of the display comprises a change in the dimensions of the dedicated portion of the display.

10. A system for displaying at least one categorized message, the system comprising:
a processor;
memory, communicatively connected to the processor;
a display, communicatively connected to the processor; and
wherein the processor is programmed by the memory to:
categorize at least one message into at least one category among a plurality of categories based on a set of rules associated with each category, each category having an assigned priority level;
select a number of messages for display based on a priority measure corresponding to the at least one category into which the number of messages is categorized and a current size of a dedicated display portion, wherein a specific message is selected for display based on a priority measure corresponding to the priority level of all the categories into which that specific message is categorized, wherein a number of messages have a priority measure based on multiple categories corresponding to that message;
in response to a resizing of the dedicated portion of the display, determine a new number of messages to display in the dedicated portion based on a new size of the dedicated portion, wherein the resizing comprises a user changing a height or width of the dedicated portion of the display; and
review the priority level of the at least one message to determine which messages to display in the resized dedicated portion of the display, wherein the set of rules associated with at least one of the categories indicates that at least one of the number of messages categorized into that category does not receive a priority measure from a different category.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein a priority measure of the specific message is based on the priority level of two or more categories to which that specific message is categorized.

12. The system of claim 10 , determining a new number of messages to display in the dedicated portion is based on an assigned font size in which the messages are to be displayed.

13. The system of claim 10 , further comprising a number of message filters, each filter associated with a category of the plurality of categories, each filter comprising criteria that, if met by a message, will cause that message to be categorized in the category corresponding to the that filter.

14. The system of claim 13 , wherein the priority level of a category is determined by a creation time of a filter associated with that category.

15. The system of claim 13 , wherein the priority level of a category is determined by how recently a filter associated with that category has been modified.

16. The system of claim 13 , wherein at least one of the message filters comprises one of a rule time, a presentation type and search criteria.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Bastide Paul R
• Davis Andrew E
• Miller Mary E

Classifications

• G06Q10/107

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

• G06F40/151 Primary

  Transformation · CPC title

• H04L51/04

  Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM] · CPC title

• H04L51/42 Primary

  Mailbox-related aspects, e.g. synchronisation of mailboxes · CPC title

• G06F17/2264 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic