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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2011
Roberto Anthony Franco, Seattle, WA (US);
Govind Varshney, Sammamish, WA (US);
Anatoliy Burukhin, Sammamish, WA (US);
Roberto Anthony Franco, Seattle, WA (US);
Govind Varshney, Sammamish, WA (US);
Anatoliy Burukhin, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method is presented for obtaining contact information on a client computer. A request is received to display contact information for a person on an email application running on the client computer. A determination is made as to whether third party contact information is available for a user of the email application. Instructions are obtained from a server computer for obtaining the third party contact information from a third party computer associated with a social network. Instructions are obtained from the server computer for formatting the third party contact information on the client computer. Using the instructions from the server computer for obtaining the third party contact information, the third party contact information is obtained from the third party computer. Using the instructions from the server computer for formatting the third party contact information, the obtained third party contact information is formatted and displayed on the client computer.