Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Joshua Travis Robinson

Ethan Joseph Bernstein

Roshin Lal Ramesan

Umut Alev

Galen Michael Elias

Rikinkumar Ashwin Shah

Luciana S Dantas

Jonathan Yoder Brenner

Shawn Michael Temming

Matthew Carey Eckstein

Konrad Daniel Lindenbach

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

An e-mail system is running with a first synchronization mechanism synchronizing first application data between a service and a client computing system. A second synchronization mechanism synchronizes second application data between the service and the client computing system, using a second protocol. When a given proportion of the application data has been synchronized by the second synchronization mechanism, the application is controlled to use the second application data synchronized according to the second protocol.

Switching synchronization systems for synchronizing server/client data

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