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In-place recipient preservation

  • US 9,378,236 B2
  • Filed: 12/26/2013
  • Issued: 06/28/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, executed at least in part by a computing device, to preserve a communication item within a communication management application (CMA), the method comprising:

  • in response to a sender sending a communication item to one or more recipients using one or more distribution lists (DLs), flagging the communication item with an extended event flag;

    storing the flagged communication item as an extended event at an assistant service;

    expanding the one or more DLs of the communication item to retrieve an expansion list comprising the one or more recipients;

    filtering through a multitude of events by the assistant service to isolate the extended event prior to expansion;

    saving the expansion list to the communication item within the CMA, wherein the expansion list is preserved at the communication item in an in-place storage system of the CMA during a delivery time of the communication item;

    in response to the saving of the expansion list to the communication item, triggering a content index of a search service to index the one or more recipients in the expansion list within a mailbox of the sender of the communication item; and

    allowing a discovery search using one or more of a display name and one or more email address attributes associated with a recipient to be performed on the mailbox of the sender to determine communication items received by the recipient.

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