Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Tatjana Fournier

Wilhelmina P Dietrich

Jason Fergus Moore

Alan Andrew Urdan

John Michael Thornton

Rodger William Benson

Ojiakonobi Udezue

Jennifer I Shen

Bradley G Weed

Yuval Gross

Robin Counts

Dave Citron

Becky Pezely

Adam Christopher Czeisler

Carmen Zlateff

Ben Perry

Keith Fournier

Keith Arthur Fournier, Ii

Techniques to share media files through messaging are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. The memory may store a message application that when executed by the processor is operative to communicate a message and a message attachment comprising a media file at different time intervals using different transports. The message may have a link comprising a reference to a discoverable storage location for the media file. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques to share media files through messaging

Display screen with a graphical user interface

Context-sensitive content may be created that may be recognized by a particular program but ignored by other programs. For example, in an e-mail message or other type of message, content could be created that advises the user to download a particular client for an enhanced content-viewing experience, along with a link pointing to a site where the client may be downloaded. This content and link could be surrounded by tags that would not be recognized by most clients, but that would be recognized by the client that provides the enhanced experience. Thus, most clients would render the advice and link, but the client that provides the enhanced experience could be configured to omit the link when it recognizes the surrounding tags, since a recipient who is viewing the e-mail with that client already has access to the enhanced experience.

Program-sensitive link in content

Various technologies for automatically downloading one or more high resolution image files from online storage. In one implementation, an e-mail client desktop application (stored at a sender's computer) may receive a request from the sender to send an e-mail with one or more high resolution image files added to the e-mail. Although the high resolution image files may be uploaded to a server, the files may be added as lower resolution image files with hidden Uniform Resource Locator (URL) addresses that may indicate the location on the server of the corresponding high resolution image files. Prior to sending the e-mail, the e-mail client desktop application may concatenate each high resolution image file's URL address with an extension or tag such as '?download' so that the address may later be easily identified.

Automatic download of images from online storage

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