Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Stefan Alexander Ashall

Rezaul Hoque

Azmil Macksood

Sangram Jyoti Bal

Omar Faruk

Vincent Olislagers

Vincent Olislangers

An identification and contextualization system comprising a contextualizing engine is provided. The contextualizing engine comprises various components that are operable to analyze an information item related to a user for identifying one or more individuals associated with the information item, and interrogate a graph structure for determining whether each of the one or more individuals associated with the information item is someone whom the user has met or has worked with based on edges and weights stored in the graph structure. When an individual who is associated with the information item is identified, the contextualizing engine is further operable to discover contextual information associated with the individual, and generate an information element surfacing the contextual information associated with the individual for display to the user.

Identifying and contextualizing individuals in an organization

Enhancing and personalizing an electronic message with related and relevant information based on context of the message and recipients of the message is provided. A mailbox delivery agent receives an electronic message addressed to a recipient, extracts context data from the electronic message, queries an information source for information related to the context data and relevant to the recipient user, receives a response including information related to the context data and relevant to the recipient user, and generates and appends one or more information elements representative of the information related to the context data and relevant to the recipient user to the electronic message.

Personalized electronic message

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Stefan Alexander Ashall