Community-based message classification and self-amending system for a messaging system

摘要

A server is provided with a classifier capable of assigning a classification confidence score to a message for at least one category. The server is further provided with a categorization database that contains a category sub-database for each category. The classifier utilizes the category database to assign the classification confidence scores. Clients are provided with forwarding modules that are capable of sending update messages to the server and associating the messages with at least one of the categories in the categorization database and a user profile. Initially, a first message is received at a client. The forwarding module is used to forward the first message to the server, and the first message is associated with a first category. A first category sub-database, which corresponds to the first category, in the categorization database is modified according to the first message and the user profile. When a second message is received at the server, the classifier is utilized to assign a classification confidence score to the second message corresponding to the first category according to the modified first category sub-database. Finally, a filtering technique is applied to the second message according to the classification confidence score.