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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.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 05, 2018
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Andrzej Turski, Redmond, WA (US);

Lili Cheng, Bellevue, WA (US);

Michael Anthony Affronti, Seattle, WA (US);

Shane Williams, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/32 (2013.01); G06Q 10/107 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 51/08 (2013.01); H04L 51/22 (2013.01); H04L 51/24 (2013.01); H04L 51/26 (2013.01);
Abstract

A mechanism for automatically organizing electronic messages is described herein. Social groups of a particular user that may be representative of topics, people, projects, and the like can be automatically learned based at least in part upon historical correspondence of the user. Moreover, messages can be automatically prioritized based at least in part upon historical correspondence patterns. Electronic messages may be presented to the user in accordance with group information and how important the messages are to the user.


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