Patent ID: 9378236
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
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.