Modification of delivered email content
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsZohaib Ali, Yamin Wang, Elena Catrinescu, Joseph Marcus, Michael Brickman, Hayley Steplyk, Eduardo Melo
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Abstract
Various parts of email content or entire emails may be recalled or modified after delivery through the use of links to cloud-storage, where the various parts of the email content may be stored. Different notification and modification methods may be employed to modify delivered content even after it is rendered for a recipient. While recipients may have a latest version of the email content, senders may be enabled to see a version history of changes in delivered email content.
Claims20
A computing device to provide modification of sent communications, the computing device comprising:
- a memory configured to store instructions;
- and
- one or more processors coupled to the memory, the one or more processors configured, in conjunction with execution of the instructions stored in the memory, to:
- receive a communication from a sender, the communication including a body having a plurality of portions;
- add a plurality of links to the communication, each of the plurality of links replacing one of the plurality of portions;
- after the communication is delivered to a recipient, provide a user interface to the sender, the user interface including an unsend control element associated with each of the plurality of links;
- and
- in response to receiving a selection of an unsend control element associated with one of the plurality of links within the user interface, remove one of the plurality of portions associated with the one of the plurality of links from the communication as delivered to the recipient.
A method executed on a computing device to provide modification of sent communications, the method comprising:
- receiving a communication from a sender, the communication including a body having a plurality of portions;
- adding a plurality of links to the communication, each of the plurality of links replacing one of the plurality of portions;
- after the communication is delivered to a recipient, providing a user interface to the sender, the user interface including an unsend control element associated with each of the plurality of links;
- and
- in response to receiving a selection of an unsend control element associated with one of the plurality of links within the user interface, removing one of the plurality of portions associated with the one of the plurality of links from the communication as delivered to the recipient.
A computer readable memory device with instructions stored thereon to provide modification of sent emails, the instructions comprising:
- receiving a communication from a sender, the communication including a body having a plurality of portions;
- adding a plurality of links to the communication, each of the plurality of links replacing one of the plurality of portions;
- after the communication is delivered to a recipient, providing a user interface to the sender, the user interface including an unsend control element associated with each of the plurality of links;
- and
- in response to receiving a selection of an unsend control element associated with one of the plurality of links within the user interface, removing one of the plurality of portions associated with the one of the plurality of links from the communication as delivered to the recipient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.