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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2006
Danyel A. Fisher, Seattle, WA (US);
Alice Jane Bernheim Brush, Bellevue, WA (US);
Andrew W. Jacobs, Seattle, WA (US);
Marc A. Smith, Redmond, WA (US);
Carman G. Neustaedter, Calgary, CA;
Danyel A. Fisher, Seattle, WA (US);
Alice Jane Bernheim Brush, Bellevue, WA (US);
Andrew W. Jacobs, Seattle, WA (US);
Marc A. Smith, Redmond, WA (US);
Carman G. Neustaedter, Calgary, CA;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A unique system, method, and user interface that facilitate ordering personal items based on past personal interaction between a user and the user's correspondents are provided. In particular, the system provides alternative views of information, such as messages, that is organized around people using an ordering based on the history of communication between the recipient and sender. Social metrics can be calculated based on social metadata associated with the messages, for example. Metrics can be used to configure how or which messages are viewed and their order in one or more pane views. Each pane view can present different orderings of messages—which are displayed by the recipient or sender of the message. So for instance, instead of viewing messages in chronological receipt date, they can be viewed by the message's sender and ordered by the number of messages previously sent to the user.