US Patent 8738611 Prioritizing email based on financial management data

A method to prioritize emails based on financial management data configured to analyze an email to determine an identity of a sender of the email, to compare the identity of the sender to contact information contained within business data of a financial management application to identify a portion of the business data as being associated with the sender, to analyze the portion of the business data to generate a score representing a level of importance of the sender to the email recipient based on a pre-determined criterion, to generate a priority ranking of the email among a number of emails based on the score, and to display the email among the number of emails to the recipient with a priority indication based on the priority ranking.