US 11,750,553 B2
Suggested delay delivery of electronic messages
Leanna Holly Robb, Seattle, WA (US); Noelle Renee Beaujon, Seattle, WA (US); Nagendra Kalyan Nanduru, Redmond, WA (US); Wendy Guo, Edmonds, WA (US); Sandeep Seri, Bellevue, WA (US); Bichong Li, Suzhou (CN); Qi Zhang, Suzhou (CN); Jinkai Zhang, Suzhou (CN); Siqi Yang, Suzhou (CN); and Tor Andrew Imsland, Seattle, WA (US)
Assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Appl. No. 17/772,474
Filed by Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
PCT Filed Nov. 1, 2019, PCT No. PCT/CN2019/114982
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 27, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/081976, PCT Pub. Date May 6, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0385615 A1, Dec. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 51/226 (2022.01); H04L 51/222 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 51/226 (2022.05) [H04L 51/222 (2022.05)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for surfacing email suggestions, the method comprising:
identifying a first user account, the first user account associated with a composer of an email;
identifying a time zone associated with the first user account;
determining core working hours associated with the first user account;
identifying a second user account, the second user account being associated with a recipient included in the email;
identifying a time zone associated with the second user account;
determining core working hours associated with the second user account;
making a first determination that the email is being composed more than a threshold duration of time outside of the core working hours associated with the first user account;
making a second determination that the time zone associated with the first user account is within a threshold temporal period of the time zone associated with the second user account; and
in response to the first determination and the second determination, surfacing a suggestion to send the email at a time when the core working hours associated with the first and second user accounts overlap.