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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2013
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Sanjay Ramaswamy, Redmond, WA (US);
Julian Zbogar-Smith, Redmond, WA (US);
Zainal Arifin, Redmond, WA (US);
Thottam R. Sriram, Redmond, WA (US);
Hardik Solanki, Redmond, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
One or more indirect recipients of a communication item within a communication management application (CMA) may be preserved in-place. Indirect recipients include individual recipients within a distribution list (DL) via TO, carbon copy (CC), and/or blind carbon copy (BCC) fields of the communication item. At time of submission of the communication item, the CMA in conjunction with an assistant service may expand the DL to retrieve a list of individual recipients from the DL. The DL may be expanded by querying a directory server associated with the CMA. The DL expansion list may be saved to the communication item at the CMA by updating one or more properties of the communication item according to the expansion list. The DL expansion list may then be referenced for indexing so that a discovery search may be performed in-place at the CMA if and when the search is needed.