Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Kalyan Ayloo

Ryan Thomas Murphy

Santosh Kumar

Ravin Sachdeva

Luiz Gustavo Bustamante Magalhaes

Haroon Dawood Barri

Kiran Phani Kaja

Savio Mendes De Figueiredo

Mauricio Cunille Blando

Krish Gali

Shravya Konda

Alexey Razuvaev

Systems and methods directed to formulating and suggesting a subject line based on content of an email message are provided. More specifically, content corresponding to one or more portions of an email may be received, where the content may be utilized to determine one or more email topics and at least one intent of the email. An intent of the email may correspond to whether an action is to be performed, whether a question is presented, whether a request for time is present, and/or any other request on the part of the recipient or the sender. Based on the intent of the email and the one or more topics, a subject line suggestion may be formulated and presented to a user.

Intelligent subject line suggestions and reformulation

Techniques of relevant content surfacing in a computer productivity platform are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at an email server of the computer productivity platform, an email having a message body containing content and determining whether the content of the email contains a request to or a commitment by the user. In response to determining that the content of the email contains a request to or a commitment, inserting metadata containing one or more properties of the request or commitment into the email, the metadata. Then, when viewing of the content of the email by the user is detected, the computer productivity platform is queried for additional content using the properties of the request or commitment as keywords. The additional content is then surfaced to the user as being related to the content in the message body of the email.

Relevant content surfacing in computer productivity platforms

Techniques for populating a response electronic message with one or more quotes are disclosed, where the quote(s) are obtained from a received electronic message. In one example, a quote is automatically detected in the received electronic message and inserted into the response electronic message as a suggested quote. Additionally or alternatively, a character input that indicates an intent to insert a quote into the response electronic message is received. A text input is then received, where the text input includes at least a portion of the text in the received electronic communication that constitutes the quote. Based on the text input, the quote in the received electronic message is determined and the response electronic communication is populated with the quote.

Populating electronic messages with quotes

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