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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:
Jan. 27, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 23, 2013
Applicant:

Lenovo Group Limited, Quarry Bay, HK;

Inventors:

Jason Rukman, Woodinville, WA (US);

Joseph Edward Heitzeberg, Seattle, WA (US);

Thomas Jay Hoover, Seattle, WA (US);

Ethan Lowry, Seattle, WA (US);

Patrick Greer Franklin, Covington, WA (US);

Assignee:

Lenovo Group Limited, Quarry Bay, HK;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 11/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04M 1/725 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04W 4/14 (2009.01); H04W 4/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/14 (2013.01); H04L 12/589 (2013.01); H04L 51/36 (2013.01); H04W 4/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

A unified messaging system which can provide messaging services for a plurality of different 'message types' is disclosed. The unified messaging system can serve as a single interface to a number of messaging services provided by various messaging components which use different message types (e.g., mail server). A unified message type is implemented and presented to a user as an abstract message. In addition, the unified messaging system can automatically determine, based on a first selected feature, if one or more message types should be used. A particular message type can also be automatically selected as a 'best message type' based on one or more selected options.


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