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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2016
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Ajoy Nandi, Redmond, WA (US);
Jason T. Creighton, Bellevue, WA (US);
Nikrouz Ghotbi, Redmond, WA (US);
Ryen W. White, Woodinville, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Task assignments are identified. A dataset that includes one or more electronic messages is received. Then, one or more pending tasks in the dataset are identified, and each of a plurality of people who are mentioned in the dataset is also identified. Then, for each of the pending tasks, one or more of the identified people are identified as potentially being people who are assigned to complete the pending task, and the pending task is associated with these identified one or more of the identified people. For each of the pending tasks, one or more of the identified people are also identified as potentially being people for whom the pending task is to be completed, and the pending task is also associated with these identified one or more of the identified people.