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AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsLong Zhou, John Morrow, Taylor Lehman, Shrivaths Iyengar, Vincent Celie, Michael Farnsworth
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Systems and techniques of providing suggestions for email recipients to a user who is composing an email communications are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a user may register a plurality of email accounts with an email application. Once an email account is registered with the email application, contact data from each such registered email account may be received. In another embodiment, if the user employs a plurality of devices from which the user composes and/or sends email communications, device-specific contact information may also be received. Relevance metrics may be applied to such suggestions depending upon the contact data received from the various email accounts. Dynamic correction factor may be applied to such relevance metrics—e.g., a decay factor, decrement factor or the like that may or may not be time dependent.
A method for automatically providing suggestions for email recipients to a user composing an email, the user having a plurality of email accounts, and each of the email accounts further contain a plurality of contacts;
A method for automatically providing suggestions for email recipients to a user composing an email, the user having first and second email accounts individually containing a plurality of contacts with associated contact data containing frequencies of communications between the user and the individual contacts, the method comprising:
A computing system for automatically providing suggestions for email recipients to a user composing an email, the user having first and second email accounts individually containing a plurality of contacts with associated contact data containing frequencies of communications between the user and the individual contacts, the computing system comprising:
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