Inbox management for threaded message views

• US 20070150541A1
• Filed: 12/27/2005
• Published: 06/28/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: O'Brien, Michael, Heidloff, Niklas, Carroll, Michael, Ezekiel, Margo
• Application Number:
  US11/318,806
• Publication Number:
  US 20070150541A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to inbox management in a messaging system and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for inbox management for threaded message views. In one embodiment, an inbox management method for threaded message views can be provided. The method can include selecting a message in a message list for an inbox, identifying a message thread for the selected message, retrieving all messages for the message thread, and inserting a listing of the retrieved messages for the message thread in the message list.

Claims

7. An inbox management data processing system comprising:

an inbox manager coupled to a message client;

a thread view for a message thread embedded among received messages in a message list provided by the inbox manager.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the thread view is sortable by sorting attribute specified for the message list.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the thread view comprises:

a thread entry having a subject specified by a selected message in the message thread; and

,

a plurality of messages in the message thread each having a subject specified by body text for respective ones of the messages.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the tread view comprises a collapsed message thread indicator for a message among the received messages belonging to a message thread.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the collapsed message thread indicator comprises a numeric indicator of a number of messages in the message thread.

12. The system of claim 10, further comprising an expanded message thread indicator for the thread view.

13. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer usable program code for inbox management for threaded message views, the computer program product including:

computer usable program code for selecting a message in a message list for an inbox;

computer usable program code for identifying a message thread for the selected message;

computer usable program code for retrieving all messages for the message thread; and

,

computer usable program code for inserting a listing of the retrieved messages for the message thread in the message list.

15. The computer program product of claim 13, further comprising:

computer usable program code for selecting a sorting attribute for all messages in the message list; and

,

computer usable program code for sorting the messages in the message list, including the messages in the listing of the retrieved messages, according to the selected sorting attribute.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the computer usable program code for inserting a listing of the retrieved messages for the message thread in the message list, comprises:

computer usable program code for replacing a subject line with message text for each of the retrieved messages;

computer usable program code for inserting a thread entry in the message list; and

,

computer usable program code for applying a subject line of the selected message to a subject line for the thread entry.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the computer usable program code for replacing a subject line with message text for each of the retrieved messages, comprises computer usable program code for replacing a subject line with a first line of message text for each of the retrieved messages.

14-1. The computer program product of claim 14, further comprising computer usable program code for additionally rendering a numeric indication with the collapsed message thread indicator indicating a number of messages in the message thread.