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Message-based system having embedded information management capabilities

  • US 7,089,287 B2
  • Filed: 01/16/2002
  • Issued: 08/08/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for managing and tracking information items within a message-based system on a user system, the message-based system having a viewer, the method comprising the operations of:

  • (a) generating a thrask, the thrask comprising a collection that associates a plurality of information items, at least one information item in the plurality of information items having a first set of metadata, the collection capable of associating a document information item and a message information item;

    (b) sorting a new information item into the thrask in accordance with at least one criterion responsive to the first set of metadata, the new information item having a second set of metadata; and

    (c) displaying, in the viewer, the thrask and at least one displayed metadataum selected from the first set of metadata or the second set of metadata.

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