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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2012
Andy Brauninger, Seattle, WA (US);
Aaron Hartwell, Duvall, WA (US);
Jason Mayans, Bothell, WA (US);
Alvin Mok, Boston, MA (US);
Andy Brauninger, Seattle, WA (US);
Aaron Hartwell, Duvall, WA (US);
Jason Mayans, Bothell, WA (US);
Alvin Mok, Boston, MA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention relate to set of improvements to the out of office assistant that send out of office messages to senders of messages while a recipient is out of the office. One embodiment of the out of office assistant associates an out of office message with a calendar event to ensure the out of office message is sent only for the predetermined time period associated with the calendar event. Other embodiments of the out of office assistant generating different messages to people internal to an organization and people external to an organization, and the out of office assistant allows different rich text formatting for the different messages. In a further embodiment, a persistent reminder reminds the user that the out of office message application is turned on.