Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Shravya Konda

Ryan Thomas Murphy

Santosh Kumar

Kalyan Ayloo

Luiz Gustavo Bustamante Magalhaes

Ravin Sachdeva

Haroon Dawood Barri

Kiran Phani Kaja

Savio Mendes De Figueiredo

Mauricio Cunille Blando

Krish Gali

Alexey Razuvaev

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

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Shravya Konda