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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2003
Jordan Luther King Schwartz, Seattle, WA (US);
Marc Adam Silbey, Seattle, WA (US);
Ahsan Syed Kabir, Seattle, WA (US);
Cees Van Dok, Bellevue, WA (US);
Hilary Palmen, Redmond, WA (US);
Gail Borod Giacobbe, Seattle, WA (US);
Sandra Barnet, Seattle, WA (US);
Vivien Park, Seattle, WA (US);
Jordan Luther King Schwartz, Seattle, WA (US);
Marc Adam Silbey, Seattle, WA (US);
Ahsan Syed Kabir, Seattle, WA (US);
Cees Van Dok, Bellevue, WA (US);
Hilary Palmen, Redmond, WA (US);
Gail Borod Giacobbe, Seattle, WA (US);
Sandra Barnet, Seattle, WA (US);
Vivien Park, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a system and method for identifying the most likely recipients for a message or other communication from a source and building a most frequently used list of recipients. The present invention utilizes a contact list and determines the likelihood that a list of recipients from that contact list are the intended targets for a current message. The likelihood determination is made using both how recent and how frequent prior communications were made to particular individuals or groups of recipients. Further, a user is able to switch between a most frequently used list of recipients and full list of contacts.