Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

David De La Brena

Tali Roth

Aditi Desai

Matthew James Wood

Mark Sunderland

Justin B Mahood

Jared Ivey

Malia Morioka Douglas

Ryan Edward Gregg

Andrew M Himberger

Charles Duze

Amit Wadhwani

Ryan Gregg

Technologies are described for chronological re-ordering of transmitted conversation components. A message transmitting a message chain in the conversation through a forward or reply action, or addition of a new participant may be kept at the top and the remainder of messages may be re-ordered in chronological order. In some examples, the displayed properties (metadata) or header information may be normalized, that is displayed in a consistent manner. In other examples, flat header information (textual data) may be analyzed and enriched. Thus, the header information may be presented with interactive features such as presence information, calendar presentation, and comparable ones.

Conversation enrichment through component re-order

Technologies are described for rich visualization of embedded objects, attachments, and links within emails and similar forms of online conversations. In some examples, the embedded objects, attachments, and links may be analyzed and parsed to generate teasers, which may include enhanced images, summary information, and comparable features. The teasers may be presented within a body of an email or in a dedicated area of a conversation user interface and include interactive features such as presentation of detailed information upon selection without opening and processing individual emails.

Interactive preview teasers in communications

Technologies are described for modification of conversation presentation for enhanced user experience. Parts of the conversation may be detected and analyzed for their properties such as who sent a message, who received, when, was anyone left out from or added to the conversation, etc. The extracted properties and analyzed information may then be used to reverse a chronological order of the conversation and present it using interactive features such as collapsing and expanding parts of the presented information, providing a summary, removing unnecessary content, and comparable features.

Conversation modification for enhanced user interaction

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