Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Vincent Y Celie

Niels Van Dongen

Bennett Wilson Hornbostel

Kieran M Phelan

Ryan M Cavalcante

Tarek Mahmoud Sayed

Randy Knight Winjum

Gerardo Villarreal Guzman

Timothy Andrew McAdoo

Ian Robert Toal

Soonil J Nagarkar

Long Zhou

John Saxon Morrow

Taylor Lehman

Michael Farnsworth

Shrivaths Iyengar

Access to system and application settings may be gained from one place without leaving the context of an application. System and application settings accessed may be limited to settings that are relevant to the application or to the context of the application. An application may to determine what application settings are displayed to a user. A user may to control some of the resources an application may access.

Access to contextually relevant system and application settings

Access to system and application settings may be gained from one place without leaving the context of an application. System and application settings accessed may be limited to settings that are relevant to the application or to the context of the application. An application may determine what application settings are displayed to a user. A user may to control some of the resources an application may access.

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

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