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US 11,962,559 B2Granted
System and method for providing social interaction interface for emails
AssigneeYahoo Ad Tech LLC
InventorsThanawat Kaewka, Lu Wang, Muchen Liu, Gautham Krishna
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Abstract
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. In an example, an email addressed to an email address associated with an email account is received. A request to display the email is received from a client device associated with the email account. In response to receiving the request to display the email, the email and a social interaction interface are displayed via an email interface on the client device. The social interaction interface includes one or more social interaction features. The one or more social interaction features include a commenting feature, a feedback feature and/or a chat feature.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving, by a communication system, an email from an email sender and addressed to an email address associated with an email account;
- receiving, by the communication system and from a client device associated with the email account, a request to display the email;
- determining, by the communication system, that the email addressed to the email address is associated with a set of related emails from the email sender;
- determining, by the communication system, that a second email from the email sender and addressed to a second email address, but not addressed to the email address, is associated with the set of related emails from the email sender;
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- in response to receiving the request to display the email, providing for display, by the communication system and via an email interface on the client device, the email and a social interaction interface comprising one or more social interaction features facilitating interaction between a first user of the email address to which the email from the email sender was addressed and a second user of the second email address to which the second email from the email sender was addressed, wherein the one or more social interaction features comprise at least one of a commenting feature, a feedback feature, or a chat feature.
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A computing device comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- memory comprising processor-executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause performance of operations, the operations comprising:
- receiving, by a communication system and from a client device, a request to send emails with social interaction interfaces to a plurality of recipient email accounts;
- receiving, by the communication system, email content associated with the request and a plurality of email addresses associated with the plurality of recipient email accounts;
- generating, by the communication system, a plurality of dynamic emails comprising a first dynamic email addressed to a first email address of the plurality of email addresses and a second dynamic email addressed to a second email address of the plurality of email addresses, wherein the first dynamic email comprises:
- at least a portion of the email content;
- and
- dynamic content comprising a social interaction interface comprising one or more social interaction features facilitating interaction between a first user of the first email address to which the first dynamic email from an email sender is addressed and a second user of the second email address to which the second dynamic email from the email sender is addressed, wherein the one or more social interaction features comprise at least one of a commenting feature, a feedback feature, or a chat feature;
- and
- transmitting, by the communication system, the plurality of dynamic emails to the plurality of recipient email accounts.
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A non-transitory machine readable medium having stored thereon processor-executable instructions that when executed cause performance of operations, the operations comprising:
- receiving, by a communication system, an email from an email sender and addressed to an email address associated with an email account;
- determining, by the communication system, that the email addressed to the email address is a social interaction-activated email;
- receiving, by the communication system and from a client device associated with the email account, a request to display the email;
- determining, by the communication system, that a second email from the email sender and addressed to a second email address, but not addressed to the email address, is associated with a set of related emails from the email sender, wherein the set of related emails is associated with the email;
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- based upon the determination by the communication system that the email is the social interaction-activated email, providing for display, by the communication system and via an email interface on the client device, the email and a social interaction interface comprising one or more social interaction features facilitating interaction between a first user of the email address to which the email from the email sender was addressed and a second user of the second email address to which the second email from the email sender was addressed, wherein the one or more social interaction features comprise at least one of a commenting feature, a feedback feature, or a chat feature.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.