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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2003
Sean Blagsvedt, Seattle, WA (US);
Ilan Berker, Seattle, WA (US);
Todd Blocksom, Issaquah, WA (US);
Gabe Hall, Woodinville, WA (US);
Chris White, Seattle, WA (US);
Joseph Benoit, Iii, Seattle, WA (US);
Karel Blaha, Renton, WA (US);
Mitika Gupta, Kirkland, WA (US);
Sean Blagsvedt, Seattle, WA (US);
Ilan Berker, Seattle, WA (US);
Todd Blocksom, Issaquah, WA (US);
Gabe Hall, Woodinville, WA (US);
Chris White, Seattle, WA (US);
Joseph Benoit, III, Seattle, WA (US);
Karel Blaha, Renton, WA (US);
Mitika Gupta, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems provide for aggregating person-centric data from one or more data sources and for providing the aggregated data to a user via a computer-displayed user interface that is keyed on or otherwise associated with an identified name in electronically presented text or data. A name in the text or data of an electronic document is identified and is associated with a unique identification, such as an electronic mail address. The unique identification is used by a persona menu application to obtain person-centric data from a variety of data sources. Example data sources include electronic mail contact files, electronic mail and calendaring system free/busy status files, directories of person-centric data related to persons associated with a distributed computing network, and instant messaging files. A data structure is populated with the returned data. Upon user selection, a user interface containing aggregated data associated with the identified name is displayed to the user to provide the user helpful information and actions associated with the identified name.