Common group suggested message recipient
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsAmer Aref Hassan, Eric Edmond Thomasian, Zhen Zhu
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Abstract
A method and system for providing a common group suggestion as a recipient of a message in a communication service are disclosed, comprising receiving a request to create a message, receiving first and second recipients of the message, identifying one or more common groups of a communication service based on received first and second recipients of the message, receiving a selection of one or more of the identified common groups, and transmitting a message to the selected common group.
Claims20
A system for providing a common group suggestion as a recipient of a message in a communication service, comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- a memory storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to control the system to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, from a first user, a request to create a message;
- receiving, from the first user, a first recipient of the message;
- receiving, from the first user, at least one character of a username of a second recipient of the message;
- responsive to and only after receiving the first recipient and at least one character of the username of the second recipient of the message:
- automatically identifying at least one recipient corresponding to the at least one character of the username of the second recipient;
- automatically identifying one or more common groups that include the first recipient and the at least one recipient corresponding to the at least one character of the username of the second recipient as members;
- and
- automatically identifying, based on one or more rules, at least one of the identified one or more common groups as a suggested recipient of the message;
- causing the identified one or more common groups to be displayed only after receiving the first recipient and the at least one character of a username of the second recipient;
- receiving, from the first user, a selected one of the at least one of the identified one or more common groups as a selected common group;
- and
- transmitting the message to the selected common group.
A method for providing a common group suggestion as a recipient of a message in a communication service, comprising:
- receiving, from a first user, a request to create a message;
- receiving, from the first user, a first recipient of the message;
- receiving, from the first user, at least one character of a username of a second recipient of the message;
- responsive to and only after receiving the first recipient and at least one character of the username of the second recipient of the message:
- automatically identifying at least one recipient corresponding to the at least one character of the username of the second recipient;
- automatically identifying one or more common groups that include the first recipient and the at least one recipient corresponding to the at least one character of the username of the second recipient as members;
- and
- automatically identifying, based on one or more rules, at least one of the identified one or more common groups as a suggested recipient of the message;
- causing the identified one or more common groups to be displayed only after receiving the first recipient and the at least one character of a username of the second recipient;
- receiving, from the first user, a selected one of the at least one of the identified one or more common groups as a selected common group;
- and
- transmitting the message to the selected common group.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.