Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Rikinkumar Ashwin Shah

Michael Anthony Affronti

Christina M Meyer

Ginger Elizabeth Tien

Galen Michael Elias

Elias Kaplan

Jonathan Yoder Brenner

Joshua Travis Robinson

Ross Edward Smith, Iv

Matthew Carey Eckstein

Shawn Michael Temming

Konrad Daniel Lindenbach

Allie Jordan Shuldman

Marie Charlotte-Amalie Mélanie Clemessy

Leonard Ndubisi Osahor

Julien André Michel Yerma

When composing an electronic message having at least one intended recipient, a contact manager provides contact information for one or more related recipients. The contact manager may receive an identifier associated with the intended recipient(s), which may be used to lookup and identify contact information for related recipient(s). The contact manager may access a contact database, and, using the identifier and relationship information, determine a contact for the related recipient. The contact manager may then populate the contact information for the contact in a recipient field or other compose surface.

Populating contact information within an electronic message based on contact relationship information

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 aggregate display of contact data from internal and external sources is provided. Contact data associated with at least one contact is obtained from a plurality of sources, including at least an internal source and an external source. The obtained contact data is processed to generate an aggregated collection of contact data. The aggregated collection of contact data is stored. A display of the aggregated collection of contact data is displayed in a single, interactive interface.

Providing an aggregate display of contact data from internal and external sources

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