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US 2016/0261550 A1Published application
Tracking electronic mail messages in a separate computing system
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsJih-Shiang Chang, Louis Michael Maresca, Madan Gopal Natu, Jujhar Singh
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Abstract
Content items found in a designated folder within an e-mail system are obtained by a separate computing system. The content items are converted into entities within the separate computing system, and associated with one or more other entities within the separate computing system, based on a set of mapping rules. The content items can then be surfaced, in context, in the separate computing system.
Claims20
A computing system, comprising:
- a folder search component that identifies an electronic mail (email) folder in an email system that is to be tracked in the computing system;
- an email message identification component that identifies an email message to be tracked in the computer system, in the identified email folder, based on an identification criterion;
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- an email-to-entity processing component that generates an email record, indicative of the identified email, in the computing system and generates association data associating the email record with an entity in the computing system based on an association criterion.
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A computer implemented method, comprising:
- identifying an electronic mail (email) folder in an email system that is to be tracked in a computing system that is separate from the email system;
- identifying an email message to be tracked in the computer system, in the identified email folder, based on an identification criterion;
- generating an email record, indicative of the identified email, in the computing system;
- generating association data associating the email record with an entity in the computing system based on an association criterion;
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- generating a visualization indicative of a display that surfaces an indication of the email record during visualization of the entity in the computer system, based on the association data.
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A computing system, comprising:
- a folder hierarchy retrieval component that retrieves, from an electronic mail (email) system, a folder hierarchy indicative of a hierarchy of email folders for a user;
- a folder-to-entity mapping component that accesses the folder hierarchy and generates user interface mapping information indicative of a folder mapping user interface with a mapping user input mechanism that is actuated to generate a folder mapping that maps an email folder in the folder hierarchy to an entity in the computing system;
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- an email-to-entity processing component that generates an email record, indicative of an email message in the email folder, in the computing system and generates association data associating the email record with the entity in the computing system based on the folder mapping.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.