IDENTIFYING COMMUNICATION PARTICIPANTS TO A RECIPIENT OF A MESSAGE

摘要

Participant identifiers, or display names, for participants in an electronic communication can be selected such that each participant's display name is unique relative within a defined set of “relevant” participants, such as all participants in an electronic communication exchange or all contacts in a contacts list maintained for a specific user. Selection of display names can be optimized to provide a unique display name for each participant using a reduced or minimized number of characters.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a computer system, a message to be delivered to a client user, the message including a participant identifier; determining, by the computer system, a default display name based at least in part on the participant identifier; determining, by the computer system, whether the default display name uniquely identifies a participant within a set of relevant participants; in the event that the default display name uniquely identifies the participant within the set of relevant participants, populating, by the computer system, a participant display name field of the message with the default display name; in the event that the default display name does not uniquely identify the participant within the set of relevant participants:
generating, by the computer system, an alternative display name, wherein the alternative display name uniquely identifies the participant within the set of relevant participants; andpopulating, by the computer system, the participant display name field of the message with the alternative display name; and delivering, by the computer system, the message, including the participant display name field, to the recipient.