Method and system for displaying indications of messages from important persons and from new persons at a high display priority in a gathered threads view of an electronic mail ("email") user interface
First Claim
1. A method for providing a gathered threads view in a user interface to an electronic messaging system, comprising:
- receiving a message belonging to a message thread;
determining whether a sender of said message is an important person with regard to a local receiving user; and
in the event that said sender of said message is an important person with regard to said local receiving user, displaying an indication of said sender of said message at a higher precedence than indications of senders of other messages in said message thread that are not important persons with regard to said local receiving user.
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Abstract
A system for providing a gathered threads view of email messages that effectively indicates the presence of messages from important persons and/or from new participants in the thread. When a message in a thread is received, the sender of the message is compared to a list of important persons for the receiving user. If the message is from a person that is important to the receiving user, then an indication of that message is presented in the user interface with a higher display precedence than indications of messages in the thread from users that are not important. The sender of a received message in a thread may also be compared with the senders of previous messages in the thread and the recipients of the first message in the thread. If the sender of the received message is a person that has not previously been a sender of a previous message in the thread, then that message is considered to be from a new participant in the thread, and an indication of the received message is presented in the user interface with a higher display precedence than indications of messages in the thread sent from persons that had previously been senders. The system may display indications of all messages in a thread received from important persons are displayed at a higher precedence than indications of messages from new thread participants, which are in turn displayed at a higher precedence than indications of all other messages in the thread.
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19 Claims
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1. A method for providing a gathered threads view in a user interface to an electronic messaging system, comprising:
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receiving a message belonging to a message thread;
determining whether a sender of said message is an important person with regard to a local receiving user; and
in the event that said sender of said message is an important person with regard to said local receiving user, displaying an indication of said sender of said message at a higher precedence than indications of senders of other messages in said message thread that are not important persons with regard to said local receiving user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A system including a computer readable medium, said computer readable medium having program code stored thereon for providing a gathered threads view in a user interface to an electronic messaging system, said program code comprising:
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program code for receiving a message belonging to a message thread;
program code for determining whether a sender of said message is an important person with regard to a local receiving user; and
program code for, in the event that said sender of said message is an important person with regard to said local receiving user, displaying an indication of said sender of said message at a higher precedence than indications of senders of other messages in said message thread that are not important persons with regard to said local receiving user. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A computer program product including a computer readable medium, said computer readable medium having program code stored thereon for providing a gathered threads view in a user interface to an electronic messaging system, said program code comprising:
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program code for receiving a message belonging to a message thread;
program code for determining whether a sender of said message is an important person with regard to a local receiving user; and
program code for, in the event that said sender of said message is an important person with regard to said local receiving user, displaying an indication of said sender of said message at a higher precedence than indications of senders of other messages in said message thread, wherein said senders of said other messages are not important persons with regard to said local receiving user.
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18. A computer data signal embodied in a carrier wave, said computer data signal having program code stored thereon for providing a gathered threads view in a user interface to an electronic messaging system, said program code comprising:
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program code for receiving a message belonging to a message thread;
program code for determining whether a sender of said message is an important person with regard to a local receiving user; and
program code for, in the event that said sender of said message is an important person with regard to said local receiving user, displaying an indication of said sender of said message at a higher precedence than indications of senders of other messages in said message thread, wherein said senders of said other messages are not important persons with regard to said local receiving user.
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19. A system for providing a gathered threads view in a user interface to an electronic messaging system, said program code comprising:
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means for receiving a message belonging to a message thread;
means for determining whether a sender of said message is an important person with regard to a local receiving user; and
means for, in the event that said sender of said message is an important person with regard to said local receiving user, displaying an indication of said sender of said message at a higher precedence than indications of senders of other messages in said message thread, wherein said senders of said other messages are not important persons with regard to said local receiving user.
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