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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsBryan T. Starbuck, Gail Borod Giacobbe, Alexander E. Vaschillo, Stephen T. Wells, Robert C. Combs, Sridhar Sundararaman, Raghavendra Rachamadugu, Hubert Louis Marie Van Hoof, John Heinrich Lueders
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The principles of the present invention extend to efficiently and reliably providing message related data. Generally, data fields of electronic messages and attachments are created in accordance with an electronic message schema hierarchy. An electronic message can include links to folder items that represent message folders. An electronic message can also include links to contact items that represent message participants. Message applications can register for folder spaces such that each message application is aware of folders that are primarily controlled by other message applications. A link to a contact item can be selected to access current contact related data for a message participant, even when the contact related data has changed since an electronic message containing the link was received.
In a computer system that is network connectable along with one or more other computer systems to a network, a method for accessing contact related data, the method comprising:
A computer program product for use in a computer system that is network connectable along with one or more other computer systems to a network, the computer program product for implementing a method for presenting contact related data, the computer program product comprising one or more computer-readable media having stored thereon computer executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the computer system to perform the following:
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