Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jonathan Yoder Brenner

Ariel Nicolas Gordon

Sarat Chandra Subramaniam

Sam Franklin Williams, Iii

Eric Wayne Doerr

Galen Michael Elias

Rikinkumar Ashwin Shah

William Thomas

Michael Robert Van Waardhuizen

Joshua Travis Robinson

Shawn Michael Temming

Konrad Daniel Lindenbach

Tia Bianca Caldwell

Matthew Carey Eckstein

Amy Caryl Nathanson

The disclosure concerns tracking a total count of unread messages where an email service manages email messages and a subset of the email messages are also stored locally on a client device. The client device may maintain a local unread count of unread messages stored on the client device, and the email service may maintain a remote unread count of unread messages stored on the email service but not on the client device. The email service may provide the remote unread count to the client device, and the client device may determine the total unread count by adding the local unread count to the remote unread count. The client device may also provide an identifier to the email service, and the email service may use the identifier to determine which of the email messages stored on the email service are not stored on the client device.

Coordinated unread count for email applications

Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for discovering and disambiguating identity providers such that user knowledge of appropriate identity providers is minimized. Users are presented with options for selecting appropriate providers only when multiple providers have user profiles matching a user identifier. When users are presented with options for selecting appropriate providers, providers that have user profiles matching the identifier are identified utilizing identity information for the application that utilizes the identity provider for its users rather than information identifying the identity provider itself. Where it is determined that no identity provider has a user profile associated with the user identifier (or where it is determined that a particular identity provider would generally be appropriate to be utilized with the user identifier), the opportunity for users to create an authentication account with one or more identity providers or to retry with a different user identifier is provided.

Discovering and disambiguating identity providers

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