SYSTEM FOR REPLYING TO RELATED MESSAGES
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Abstract
A system is provided which utilizes a threading service to offer enhanced features for a document management system including an email system. Various enhanced email features may be provided through one or more of the following components: a delete module, a reply module, a profile module, and a search module. The delete module enables a user to delete a selected message, a set of related messages, or the whole set except for the selected message. The reply module enables a user to send a reply message to all addresses associated and involved with an entire set of related messages. The profile module enables a dynamic interest profile to contain all relevant information from an outgoing message and a set of messages related to the outgoing message. The search module enables search results to include documents which match the user'"'"'s query as well as documents related to the documents which match the user'"'"'s query.
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28 Claims
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20. A system for replying to messages comprising:
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a display device that displays a graphical user interface that presents a list of messages and one or more reply options to a user, that permits the user to select a message and that permits the user to select one of the one or more reply options through the graphical user interface, wherein the graphical user interface includes one or more views; and a computer-readable medium that includes a reply module, the reply module including computer-readable instructions operable to be executed on a processor, that determines, in response to the selected one or more reply options, one or more related messages that are related to the selected massage, automatically populates one or more address fields of a reply message with a message address of a sender of the selected message and a message address of a recipient of the one or more related messages, wherein the recipient of the one or more related messages is neither a sender of the selected message nor a recipient of the selected message; and
stores the message address of the sender of the selected message and the message address of the recipient of the one or more related messages, along with information regarding the field of the message from which each address originated. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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