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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsRajesh Ramanathan, Kristian Andaker, Taketoshi Yoshida, Victor Romano
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A user of a client computer submits a directory request to a server executing a server email application. The server email application is responsive to the directory request to identify a custom directory containing contact data for one or more individuals. The server email application determines whether to transfer a written form of the contact data, or whether to transfer both written and phonetic forms of the contact data to the client computer. The server email application indexes the contact data, prior to transfer, based on the written form when only the written form of contact data is being transferred to the client computer, and indexes the contact data based on both the phonetic and written forms when the written and phonetic forms of the contact data are both being transferred to the client computer.
A method implemented by a computing device for transferring contact data from a server to a client computer via a communication network, said method comprising:
One or more computer-readable media having computer executable components executed by a computing device for transferring contact data to a client application for processing in response to a directory request received from a user of a client computer executing the client application, said directory request including user identification data for the user of the client computer, said computer-readable media comprising:
A system for transferring contact data between a server and a client computer via a communication network, said system comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.