Electronic message search system and method
US9838348B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 31, 2014 |
| Grant date | Dec 5, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 23, 2036 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/90335
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A search query for searching electronic messages, such as email, may be used to search for different types of items, such as and without limitation electronic messages, contacts, photos, documents, such as and without limitation papers, presentations, etc., business entities, personal information extracted from messages, such as and without limitation purchase orders, shipments, reservations, travel itineraries, etc. Several sources of data, which may be indexed for searching, such as and without limitation a personal mail search index, contacts, or business entity, index, attachments index, extracted data index, etc. may be searched using the search query. A number of top search result items, which may include different types of items, may be presented apart from other search result items.
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