Scheduled Message Cleanup
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsMichael James Ahiakpor, Steven D. Kafka
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Abstract
Scheduled message cleanup techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a method implemented by one or more computing devices includes detecting that a message has been received from a sender for delivery via a user account. Responsive to a determination that an option has been selected for the sender in association with the user account, a previous message from the sender that is to be delivered via the user account is removed and the detected message is kept for delivery via the user account.
Claims20
A method implemented by one or more computing devices, the method comprising:
- detecting that a message has been received from a sender for delivery via a user account;
- and
- responsive to a determination that an option has been selected for the sender in association with the user account:
- removing a previous message from the sender that is to be delivered via the user account;
- and
- keeping the detected message for delivery via the user account.
A method implemented by one or more computing devices, the method comprising:
- detecting that a message has been received from a sender for delivery via a user account;
- and
- responsive to a determination that an option has been selected for the sender in association with the user account, deleting the message after a predefined amount of time has passed as specified in conjunction with the option.
A method comprising:
- displaying a user interface by a client device via which a plurality of emails are viewable;
- and
- displaying one or more options in conjunction with the user interface by the client device, including:
- a first said option that is selectable to cause a most recent email that is received from a specified sender to be saved and at least one other previous email from the sender to be removed automatically and without user intervention upon receipt of the most recent email;
- and
- a second option that is selectable to cause one or more emails from a sender specified through interaction with the user interface to be removed after a predefined amount of time has passed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.