email threading technology
The Email Thread Problem
Email communication is a part of everyday life. It is estimated that over 250 billion emails are sent and received each day worldwide. A large portion of those 250 billion emails are replies or forwards to other emails, creating an email chain or thread.
An email thread can contain multiple duplicates of other emails however they are not an exact duplicate as they are unique in their own right.
The Email Thread Solution
In the context of litigation, being able to follow an email thread is very important. Email threading technology captures and reconstructs email conversations. By identifying the unique emails in a collection, the tool drastically reduces the number of emails that need to be reviewed.
Email threading simplifies the review of emails, while allowing the review of the email within its original context:
- Assign email threads for review, ensuring coherent review of email data.
- Start review of an email thread by reading the first "Inclusive". An Inclusive is the last email in a thread. Equivio verifies that each Inclusive contains the entire history of the thread.
- Review the other inclusives in the thread with the Equivio>Compare tool. Equivio>Compare highlights between emails, eliminating the wasteful review of email data that the user has already seen. The user reviews unique data only.
- Users can bulk handle all the emails in a thread, reducing time and cost, while also ensuring that all the emails in the thread are treated consistently.
Using Equivio's content-centric technology for email threads allows e.law customers to review only emails that contain unique content. Applied to data in the Enron case, email threading was able to reduce the overall review effort by 60%. The content-centric approach is robust, eliminating any dependence on the idiosyncrasies of email metadata, while also facilitating thread analysis on OCR collections.
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