CONDITIONAL INSTANT DELIVERY OF EMAIL MESSAGES

• US 20160261542A1
• Filed: 12/22/2015
• Published: 09/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Kapoor, Salil, Parthasarathy, Krishna Kumar, Cranston, Wayne Merl, Whalen, William James, Mahapatro, Neelamadhaba, Gupta, Piyush, Sigalov, Faina, Sturgeon, Jonathan
• Granted Patent: US 10,193,838 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/046 Interoperability with other network applications or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/226 Delivery according to priorities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/23 Reliability checks, e.g. acknowledgments or fault reporting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/42 Mailbox-related aspects, e.g. synchronisation of mailboxes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/56 Unified messaging, e.g. interactions between e-mail, instant messaging or converged IP messaging [CPM]

Abstract

Technologies are described herein for providing delivery optimization of email messages. In particular, direct delivery system is provided for sending emails to allow for instant communication and collaboration. According to one aspect presented herein, a method is provided for instant or near instant delivery of a message. The method includes receiving the message from a client. Additionally, the method analyzes the message to determine if it meets one or more factors for taking a direct path.

Claims

1. A method for delivery of a message, the method comprises:

receiving the message from a client;

analyzing the message or other factors to determine if the message meets one or more conditions to qualify for a direct delivery system;

sending the message using a processing hub having a set of operations for delivering the message to a recipient mailbox if it is determined that the message does not meet the one or more conditions to qualify for the direct delivery system; and

sending the message using the direct delivery system having a subset of the set of operations for delivering the message to the recipient mailbox if it is determined that the message meets the one or more conditions to qualify for the direct delivery system.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein sending the message using the processing hub having the set of operations that includes a queuing process, and wherein sending the message using the direct delivery system having the subset of the set of operations does not include the queuing process.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining if the direct delivery system of the message fails; and

if it is determined that the direct delivery system of the message fails, sending the message using the processing hub having the set of operations for delivering the message to the recipient mailbox.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more conditions to qualify for the direct delivery system comprises at least one of a size of the message, a message type of the message, a number of recipients to which the message is addressed, a timestamp of the message, a recipient type and whether a recipient belongs to an organization of a sender.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of operations for delivering the message comprises at least one of malware scanning, compliance checking, SPAM filtering, creating copies of the message for redundancy for high availability purposes and a resolving process.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the subset of the set of operations for delivering the message comprises at least malware scanning.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the subset of the set of operations for delivering the message comprises at least compliance checking.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein analyzing the message or other factors to determine if the message meets the one or more conditions to qualify for the direct delivery system comprises determining qualification for the direct delivery system on a per recipient basis.

9. A system for delivery of a message, the system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory in communication with the processor, the memory having computer-readable instructions stored thereupon that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform a method comprising

receiving the message from a client,

analyzing the message or other factors to determine if the message meets one or more conditions to qualify for a direct delivery system,

sending the message using a processing hub having a set of operations for delivering the message to a recipient mailbox if it is determined that the message does not meet one or more conditions to qualify for the direct delivery system, and

sending the message using the direct delivery system having a subset of the set of operations for delivering the message to the recipient mailbox if it is determined that the message meets one or more conditions to qualify for the direct delivery system.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein sending the message using the processing hub having the set of operations that includes a queuing process, and wherein sending the message using the direct delivery system having the subset of the set of operations does not include the queuing process.

11. The system of claim 9, further comprising:

determining if the direct delivery system of the message fails; and

if it is determined that the direct delivery system of the message fails, sending the message using the processing hub having the set of operations for delivering the message to the recipient mailbox.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the one or more conditions to qualify for the direct delivery system comprises at least one of a size of the message, a number of recipients to which the message is addressed, a timestamp of the message and whether a recipient belongs to an organization of a sender.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the set of operations for delivering the message comprises at least one of malware scanning, compliance checking, SPAM filtering and creating copies of the message for redundancy for high availability purposes.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein the subset of the set of operations for delivering the message comprises at least compliance checking.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the subset of the set of operations for delivering the message comprises at least malware scanning.

16. A method for a delivery of a message, the method comprises:

receiving an indication the message has been received from a client;

causing an analysis of the message or other factors to determine if the message meets one or more conditions to qualify for a direct delivery system;

causing the delivery of the message using a processing hub having a set of operations for delivering the message to a recipient mailbox if it is determined that the message does not meet the one or more conditions to qualify for the direct delivery system; and

causing the delivery of the message using the direct delivery system having a subset of the set of operations for delivering the message to a recipient mailbox if it is determined that the message meets the one or more conditions to qualify for the direct delivery system.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein causing the delivery of the message using the processing hub having the set of operations that includes a queuing process, and wherein causing the delivery of the message using the direct delivery system having the subset of the set of operations does not include the queuing process.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

determining if the direct delivery system of the message fails; and

if it is determined that the direct delivery system of the message fails, causing the delivery of the message using the processing hub having the set of operations for delivering the message to the recipient mailbox.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein the set of operations for delivering the message comprises at least one of malware scanning, compliance checking, SPAM filtering, creating copies of the message for redundancy for high availability purposes and a resolving process.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein the subset of the set of operations for delivering the message comprises at least malware scanning.

21. The method of claim 16, wherein the subset of the set of operations for delivering the message comprises at least compliance checking.

22. The method of claim 16, wherein causing an analysis of the message or other factors to determine if the message meets the one or more conditions to qualify for the direct delivery system comprises determining qualification for the direct delivery system on a per recipient basis.

23. The method of claim 16, further comprising adding a direct delivery tag to the message in response to determining the message meets the one or more conditions to qualify for the direct delivery system.