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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2014
Filed:
May. 30, 2008
Alton Kwok, Redmond, WA (US);
Stephen Dewitt Sisk, Seattle, WA (US);
Adam C. Czeisler, Seattle, WA (US);
Steven Karl Abrahams, Seattle, WA (US);
Alton Kwok, Redmond, WA (US);
Stephen DeWitt Sisk, Seattle, WA (US);
Adam C. Czeisler, Seattle, WA (US);
Steven Karl Abrahams, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques described herein allow for suggesting creation of distribution lists and suggesting use of distribution lists once they have been created. For instance, these techniques may track a frequency with which contacts (e.g., email addresses, phone numbers, screen names, etc.) are used with one another. The techniques may then suggest that a user create a distribution list that includes those contacts. Furthermore, once a contact has been associated with a particular distribution list, these techniques may suggest that a user send a message to this distribution list in response to the user selecting the contact (rather than the list) as a destination of the message.