EXTENSIBILITY FEATURES FOR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS

摘要

An extensibility model is used to provide active and interactive functionality in communication items, but the embodiments are not so limited. A computer system of an embodiment includes components configured to identify one or more activation triggers that operate to activate gadget code using an isolated code execution environment as part of injecting content into an email communication. A method of one embodiment provides an extensibility framework for using defined gadget triggers and associated gadget functionality as part of automatically injecting content inline with a mail message.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
parsing a source communication to produce a parsed output; using triggering criteria as part of identifying an extension trigger in the parsed output of the source communication, including using one or more regular expressions as the triggering criteria to trigger an injection of active content inline with the source communication; and implementing an extension with an email client as part of interacting with the source communication by:
unpacking a solution package associated with the extension; andexecuting extension code after using the one or more regular expressions to identify a corresponding extension trigger for the extension as part of providing active content features for the source communication separate from the email client, wherein the executing extension code embeds the active content in a displayed email message.