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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
May. 23, 2018
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Ravin Sachdeva, Seattle, WA (US);
Savio Mendes de Figueiredo, Bothell, WA (US);
Mauricio Cunille Blando, Seattle, WA (US);
Santosh Kumar, Sammamish, WA (US);
Kiran Phani Kaja, Sammamish, WA (US);
Haroon Dawood Barri, Bothell, WA (US);
Alexey Razuvaev, Issaquah, WA (US);
Krish Gali, Bellevue, WA (US);
Kalyan Ayloo, Bothell, WA (US);
Ryan Thomas Murphy, Seattle, WA (US);
Shravya Konda, Redmond, WA (US);
Luiz Gustavo Bustamante Magalhaes, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques of relevant content surfacing in a computer productivity platform are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at an email server of the computer productivity platform, an email having a message body containing content and determining whether the content of the email contains a request to or a commitment by the user. In response to determining that the content of the email contains a request to or a commitment, inserting metadata containing one or more properties of the request or commitment into the email, the metadata. Then, when viewing of the content of the email by the user is detected, the computer productivity platform is queried for additional content using the properties of the request or commitment as keywords. The additional content is then surfaced to the user as being related to the content in the message body of the email.