Displaying a countdown timer for a next calendar event in an electronic mail inbox

Patent №

US 10,692,049

Granted

2020-06-23

Filed 2017

Owner

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

AI components

4

nlp · kr · planning · evo

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15605127

An electronic mail (e-mail) display is generated for a user, showing a mailbox for the user. A next calendar item indication is persistently displayed on the e-mail display. The next calendar item includes a countdown timer showing a time until the next calendar item is scheduled to begin.

AI classification

Planning1.00
Natural language0.92
Knowledge representation0.71
Evolutionary computation0.63
AI hardware0.02
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

assignment · 429860014

Assignors

NALLIAH, SELVARAJ, SOMMERS, DEBORAH EILEEN, LIMONT, DAVID PAUL, SIMPSON, RUSSELL LEE, JR., ALI, ZOHAIB HAIDER, GRAY, LINDA CHEN, SAULNIER, WILLIAM DEAN

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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