Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Audio presentation of conversation threads
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Application No.: US16436608Application Date: 2019-06-10
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Publication No.: US11269590B2Publication Date: 2022-03-08
- Inventor: August Kathryn Niehaus , Saurabh Choudhury , Eugene Y. Suh , Gunjan Sood
- Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Alleman Hall Creasman & Tuttle LLP
- Main IPC: G06F3/16
- IPC: G06F3/16 ; H04L12/58 ; H04L51/00

Abstract:
In an example, a computing system receives an instruction to initiate audio presentation of electronic communications for a recipient. Responsive to the instruction, the computing system audibly outputs each unreviewed electronic communication in a most-recent conversation thread including a most-recent set of unreviewed, reply-linked electronic communications for the recipient. Each unreviewed electronic communication in the most-recent conversation thread may be audibly output in a chronological-sequential order beginning with an oldest unreviewed electronic communication and continuing to a most-recent unreviewed electronic communication. Responsive to completing audible output of the most-recent unreviewed electronic communication from a conversation thread, the computing device audibly outputs each unreviewed electronic communication in a next-most-recent conversation thread including a next-most-recent set of unreviewed, reply-linked electronic communications for the recipient. Each unreviewed electronic communication in the next-most-recent conversation thread may be audibly output in a chronological-sequential order beginning with an oldest unreviewed electronic communication.
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