Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Michael Farnsworth

John Saxon Morrow

Vincent Y Celie

Long Zhou

Taylor Lehman

Shrivaths Iyengar

Neil Pankey

Ashish Bangale

Systems and techniques of providing suggestions for email recipients to a user who is composing an email communications are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a user may register a plurality of email accounts with an email application. Once an email account is registered with the email application, contact data from each such registered email account may be received. In another embodiment, if the user employs a plurality of devices from which the user composes and/or sends email communications, device-specific contact information may also be received. Relevance metrics may be applied to such suggestions depending upon the contact data received from the various email accounts. Dynamic correction factor may be applied to such relevance metrics&#x2014;e.g., a decay factor, decrement factor or the like that may or may not be time dependent.

Systems and methods of automatically ordering and selecting recipients for electronic mail

Described herein are technologies pertaining to transmitting electronic contact data from a first application to a second application by way of an operating system without generating a centralized contact store or providing the second application with programmatic access to all electronic contact data retained by first application.

Contact selector that facilitates granular sharing of contact data

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Monroe, WA, United States of America

Michael Farnsworth