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US 2016/0255033 A1Published application
Content based message delivery
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsWilliam Thompson, Krishna Kumar Parthasarathy, Prasanta Ghosal, Shrey Shah, Shaun Wallace
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Abstract
Provided herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating message sessions. In one implementation, a notification is received relating to a message submitted for delivery on behalf of a sender to a recipient. The message includes several components. At least one delivery policy is identified based on the content identified in at least one of the components. Delivery of the message is initiated according to the delivery policy.
Claims8
A computing system for handling emails comprising:
- a sending server that receives requests from email clients to send an email, identifies an intermediate environment through which to route the email, and sends the email to the intermediate environment;
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- an intermediate server in the intermediate environment that receives the email, queries a mail exchanger record to identify routing information for the email, and sends the email to a recipient system using the routing information.
A method of operating an email service comprising:
- in a sending server that receives requests from email clients to send an email, identifying an intermediate environment through which to route the email and sending the email to the intermediate environment;
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- in an intermediate server in the intermediate environment that receives the email, querying a mail exchanger record to identify routing information for the email and sending the email to a recipient system using the routing information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.