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US 2020/0267101 A1Published application
In-line collaboration in e-mail
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsLin ZHONG, Shahil SONI
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Abstract
An electronic mail (e-mail) system detects when a user is replying to a particular portion of content in a received message. The reply is automatically formatted to visually distinguish it over replies from other recipients to the same portion of content.
Claims21
1-20. (canceled)
A computing system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- memory storing instructions executable by the processor, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the computing system to:
- generate a user interface comprising a compose pane representing an electronic mail (email) message authored by a user;
- based on input from the user in the compose pane, generate message content in the email message;
- determine that the email message, authored by the user in the compose pane, conforms to a predefined question schema;
- generate a message tag indicating the email message conforms to the predefined question schema;
- and
- send the email message including the message tag to a recipient.
6 more elements
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- generating a user interface comprising a compose pane corresponding to an electronic mail (email) message authored by a user;
- based on user input from the user in the compose pane, generating message content in the email message;
- determining that the email message authored by the user in the compose pane, conforms to a predefined question schema;
- generating a message tag indicating the email message conforms to the predefined question schema;
- and
- sending the email message including the message tag to a recipient.
3 more elements
A computing system comprising:
- an electronic mail (email) system configured to generate a user interface comprising a reply pane representing a reply electronic mail (email) message that is in reply to a first email message received by a recipient user, the reply pane configured to receive input from the recipient user to generate message content in the reply email message;
- a recipient processing system configured to:
- detect a linguistic interpretation of the message content entered by the recipient user in the reply pane, the linguistic interpretation indicating that the message content is in reply to a particular textual portion in the first email message;
- and
- generate a question tag that is associated with the particular textual portion;
- and
- send the email message including the question tag to one or more recipients.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.