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Interactive preview teasers in communications

  • US 10,191,891 B2
  • Filed: 08/26/2015
  • Issued: 01/29/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computing device to provide rich visualization of embedded objects, attachments, and links within emails through teasers, the computing device comprising:

  • a memory configured to store instructions; and

    one or more processors coupled to the memory, the one or more processors configured to execute, in conjunction with the instructions stored in the memory, a communication application, wherein the one or more processors are configured to;

    provide a conversation to be displayed on a conversation user interface, the conversation comprising a plurality of email messages;

    detect an embedded object within an email message of the plurality of email messages;

    analyze the embedded object to determine one or more teaser components, each of the one or more teaser components including a portion of textual or graphical content included in the embedded object;

    conducting a search of an external source for additional information associated with the embedded object based on content included in at least one of the one or more teaser components;

    construct a teaser including at least one of the one or more teaser components and the additional information; and

    provide the teaser to be displayed within a body of the email message or on a dedicated portion of the conversation user interface without requiring a user to open the email message in a separate user interface.

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