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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:
Sep. 05, 2023

Filed:

Nov. 01, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Leanna Holly Robb, Seattle, WA (US);

Noelle Renee Beaujon, Seattle, WA (US);

Nagendra Kalyan Nanduru, Redmond, WA (US);

Wendy Guo, Edmonds, WA (US);

Sandeep Seri, Bellevue, WA (US);

Bichong Li, Suzhou, CN;

Qi Zhang, Suzhou, CN;

Jinkai Zhang, Suzhou, CN;

Siqi Yang, Suzhou, CN;

Tor Andrew Imsland, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/226 (2022.01); H04L 51/222 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/226 (2022.05); H04L 51/222 (2022.05);
Abstract

In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for surfacing email suggestions are presented. A first user account associated with a composer of an email may be identified. Core working hour and a time zone associated with that first user account may be determined. One or more recipient user accounts included in the email may be identified. Core working hours and a time zone associated with the recipient user accounts may be identified. If more than a threshold number, percentage, and/or ratio of the recipient users is not currently in core working hours when the email is being drafted/sent, a suggestion may be surfaced in association with the email to send the email at a later time when more recipient users are in their core working hours.


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