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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:
Mar. 08, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 10, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

August Kathryn Niehaus, Bellevue, WA (US);

Saurabh Choudhury, Bothell, WA (US);

Eugene Y. Suh, Bellevue, WA (US);

Gunjan Sood, Bellevue, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 51/00 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/167 (2013.01); H04L 51/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

In an example, a computing system receives an instruction to initiate audio presentation of electronic communications for a recipient. Responsive to the instruction, the computing system audibly outputs each unreviewed electronic communication in a most-recent conversation thread including a most-recent set of unreviewed, reply-linked electronic communications for the recipient. Each unreviewed electronic communication in the most-recent conversation thread may be audibly output in a chronological-sequential order beginning with an oldest unreviewed electronic communication and continuing to a most-recent unreviewed electronic communication. Responsive to completing audible output of the most-recent unreviewed electronic communication from a conversation thread, the computing device audibly outputs each unreviewed electronic communication in a next-most-recent conversation thread including a next-most-recent set of unreviewed, reply-linked electronic communications for the recipient. Each unreviewed electronic communication in the next-most-recent conversation thread may be audibly output in a chronological-sequential order beginning with an oldest unreviewed electronic communication.


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