Populating electronic messages with quotes
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorKalyan AYLOO
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Abstract
Techniques for populating a response electronic message with one or more quotes are disclosed, where the quote(s) are obtained from a received electronic message. In one example, a quote is automatically detected in the received electronic message and inserted into the response electronic message as a suggested quote. Additionally or alternatively, a character input that indicates an intent to insert a quote into the response electronic message is received. A text input is then received, where the text input includes at least a portion of the text in the received electronic communication that constitutes the quote. Based on the text input, the quote in the received electronic message is determined and the response electronic communication is populated with the quote.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method of populating a response electronic message with a quote from a received electronic message, the method comprising:
- receiving an indication to send the response electronic message to the received electronic message;
- automatically detecting quotable text in the received electronic message;
- populating the response electronic message with the quotable text, the quotable text presented as a suggested quote;
- and
- based on a received input associated with the suggested quote, determining whether to finalize or remove the suggested quote in the response electronic message.
A system, comprising:
- a processing device;
- and
- a memory operably connected to the processing device and storing instructions, that when executed by the processing device, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
- receiving an indication to send a response electronic message to a received electronic message;
- automatically detecting quotable text in the received electronic message;
- populating the response electronic message with the quotable text, the quotable text presented as a suggested quote;
- and
- based on a received input associated with the suggested quote, determining whether to finalize or remove the suggested quote in the response electronic message.
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- receiving an indication to send a response electronic message to a received electronic message;
- and
- in response to receiving the indication:
- automatically detecting quotable text in the received electronic message;
- populating the response electronic message with the quotable text, the quotable text presented as a suggested quote;
- and
- based on receiving the character input indicating an intent to populate the response electronic message with an inserted quote:
- removing the suggested quote from the response electronic message;
- receiving a text input that provides at least a portion of text in the received electronic message that comprises the inserted quote;
- automatically determining the inserted quote in the received electronic message that corresponds to the text input;
- and
- populating the response electronic message with the inserted quote.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.