Patents Represented by Attorney Richard J. Katz, Esq.
  • Patent number: 8224912
    Abstract: A method to use dynamically prioritized email communications to establish and analyze organization social network maps includes selecting a dynamically prioritized email dataset based on network boundaries and contextual framework, establishing a one-way trusted relationship score between an email recipient and sender, establishing a one-way trusted relationship score between an email sender and recipient, establishing a two-way trusted relationship score between two communicating entities, establishing an atomic unit of entities based on a decreasing order of at least one of the one-way trusted relationship score and the two-way trusted relationship score, and establishing a social network based on arranging atomic units and entities based on one or more of an email prioritization score, a trusted relationship score, and an email productivity and collaboration metric, wherein the entities are email senders and email recipients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Messagemind, Inc.
    Inventor: Manish Chandler Sood
  • Patent number: 8161122
    Abstract: A system and method for managing electronic communications more effectively utilizes electronic communications. The method assigns a prioritization score and category to each electronic communication so that a user can more effectively manage the communications. The user interacts with a graphical user interface to effectively manage electronic communications. The system arranges and displays the electronic communications according to prioritization scores and categories, and includes interactive modules to override a system assigned prioritization scores and assign any score or category the user selects. The method also measures productivity of users as a function of at least three different metrics, a decision-making metric; a communication metric; and a processing metric, and takes into account prioritization scores and the amount of time it takes users to effectively utilize the electronic communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Messagemind, Inc.
    Inventors: Manish Chander Sood, Cheng-Rong Ruan, Alain Oberrotman