Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Patent
1997-06-30
2000-10-17
Hong, Stephen S.
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
709206, 714 38, 717 4, G06F 1516
Patent
active
061345660
ABSTRACT:
A message viewing program displays a preview pane that is controlled to avoid previewing messages with disruptive message content. Before the body of a message is previewed in the preview pane, an identifier relating to the message is written to a nonvolatile storage location. After the message is previewed in the preview pane without causing a system disruption, the identifier is deleted. Before a message is previewed, the nonvolatile storage location is searched for the identifier relating to the message. If the identifier is found, the message is not previewed in the preview pane. Also, an icon is displayed indicating that the message may contain disruptive message content. Alternatively, the message viewing program writes an enable identifier to a nonvolatile storage location when it shuts down without encountering a system disruption. If the enable identifier is not present upon start up, messages are not previewed in the preview pane.
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Berman Eric Robert
Marl Coyle Brett
Hong Stephen S.
Microsoft Corporation
Paula Cesar B.
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