Intelligent event time bridge across domains

#Electronic calendars and messaging applications that are integrated with those electronic calendars are ubiquitous in business environments and are increasingly being used for the scheduling of personal events. A user in an organization may provide other users within that organization with access to her calendar. Those other users may then more easily determine when the user is available or busy for meeting booking purposes.

#It is with respect to this general technical environment that aspects of the present technology disclosed herein have been contemplated. Furthermore, although a general environment has been discussed, it should be understood that the examples described herein should not be limited to the general environment identified in the background.

#This summary is provided to introduce a selection of concepts in a simplified form that are further described below in the Detailed Description section. This summary is not intended to identify key features or essential features of the claimed subject matter, nor is it intended to be used as an aid in determining the scope of the claimed subject matter. Additional aspects, features, and/or advantages of examples will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be apparent from the description or may be learned by practice of the disclosure.

#Non-limiting and non-exhaustive examples are described with reference to the following figures:

#FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example distributed computing environment for providing cross-domain access to calendar content.

#FIG. 2A illustrates a simplified diagram of a distributed computing environment for providing cross-domain access to calendar availability information.

#Various embodiments will be described in detail with reference to the drawings, wherein like reference numerals represent like parts and assemblies throughout the several views. Reference to various embodiments does not limit the scope of the claims attached hereto. Additionally, any examples set forth in this specification are not intended to be limiting and merely set forth some of the many possible embodiments for the appended claims.

#Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure describe systems, methods and devices for providing cross-domain access to electronic calendars. As used herein, “domain” may refer to a user's electronic alias and/or a user's organization. For example, a first domain may comprise an email address with domain @[company1.com] and a second domain may comprise an email address with domain @[company2.com]. According to examples, a first user account may request access to an electronic calendar associated with a second user account. The request may originate from an electronic calendar application associated with the first user account, an event scheduling assistant associated with the first user account, a digital assistant, an email application associated with the first user account, or a stand-alone request interface, for example.

#In some examples, the second user account may have settings that have been interacted with by the second user that allow users outside of her domain to access certain electronic calendar details. Those calendar details may include whether the second user is free or busy for authorized time periods. In some examples, the details that a user may access from the second user's electronic calendar may be based on an importance level of a requesting user that is determined by a cross-domain calendar application service. The cross-domain calendar application service may analyze various factors in making a determination as to a requesting user's relative importance to a sharing user. Those factors may include collaboration signals (e.g., messages exchanged between users, meetings that include users, etc.), hierarchy of users in their respective organizations, and social media graphs, for example. Therefore, the cross-domain calendar application service may provide calendar event information from the sharing user's electronic calendar at a level that corresponds to a requesting user's determined importance level to the sharing user. The sharing user may manually adjust the sharing level and/or details that are shared with individual users and/or multiple users at a given time (e.g., users in a same domain, users in a same organization, users having similar characteristics, etc.).