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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2014
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Justin B. Mahood, Seattle, WA (US);
Ryan Gregg, Seattle, WA (US);
Tali Roth, Kirkland, WA (US);
Giselli Panontini DeSouza Sana, Redmond, WA (US);
Linda Chen, Redmond, WA (US);
Rajesh Ramanathan, Redmond, WA (US);
Rafael Ferreira Barcelos, Bellevue, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/16 (2013.01); H04L 51/00 (2013.01); G06F 15/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
When a message is received, the recipient set in the message, as well as ancestor message identifiers, are analyzed. The received message is either placed in an existing thread in an existing conversation, or in a new thread in the conversation, based upon the analysis of the recipient set and the ancestor identifiers.