Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

John Leslie Gibbon

Jason Todd Henderson

Michael Anthony Faoro

Robert Meyer

Chao-Chung Lin

Andrew John Sullivan

Guojun Yu

David Pierre Marcel Claux

Malcolm Hollis Davis

David R Fulmer

Robert Emmett McCann

Kristian L M Andaker

Robert Congdon

A compose form for drafting a message is presented inline within a window along with a message list. For example, instead of overlaying the message application's user interface (UI) with a new window for composing a message, the compose form is displayed within a portion of the window reserved for viewing content of messages. While composing the message using the compose form, the rest of the message application's UI remains visible and accessible to the user. For example, the user may navigate to another folder and/or move to another message/conversation by interacting with the tree view/message list view. A draft of the message being composed may be automatically saved when the user navigates away from the compose form (e.g. by selecting another conversation in the list view).

Inline message composing with visible list view

A notification subscription application allows a subscriber to maintain event notification continuity in a load-balanced work environment. The notification subscription application proactively provides the subscriber notifications indicating an operating status of the subscription. In this manner, subscribers can reduce the number of missed event notifications, by readily reestablishing a subscription when required. The notification service associates markers with events such that event notifications occurring during a period of time when the notification subscription is not operating properly can be identified when the subscription is reestablished.

Maintaining and establishing subscriptions with load-balanced servers

A recipient computer system submits an anonymous electronic message address to a source computing system for use when the source computing system is to send electronic messages to the recipient. When the electronic message server receives an electronic message, it reads the electronic message address and determines that the address corresponds to the recipient, but only if the electronic message originated from the source. If the electronic message were to originate from a different source computing system, the same electronic message address would not be respected for delivery to the recipient. Accordingly, the electronic message address is specific to a source, and thus sharing the electronic message address has little avail. The association between the address and the recipient may be revoked when the recipient no longer desires to receive messages from the source.

Source-specific electronic message addressing

Growing community of inventors

Renton, WA, United States of America

John Leslie Gibbon