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Threaded presentation of electronic mail

  • US 7,895,279 B2
  • Filed: 07/24/2008
  • Issued: 02/22/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • receiving a first e-mail message;

    determining whether the received first e-mail message is related to another e-mail message in a mailbox;

    when, based on the determining, the first e-mail message is not related another e-mail message, displaying a first entry associated with the first e-mail message in a mailbox display; and

    when, based on the determining, the first e-mail message is related to a second e-mail message, generating an e-mail thread, the e-mail thread associating the first e-mail message and the second e-mail message, the e-mail thread having a thread header including information derived from attributes of at least one of the first or second e-mail messages, and displaying the thread header in the mailbox display as a thread header entry in place of separate mailbox entries for the first e-mail message and the second e-mail message.

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