Method and system for displaying email thread information
First Claim
1. A method for allowing a user to review and modify an email prior to its transmission, comprising:
- providing an electronic device having an email application that is coupled to a network and contains the email which includes an email-thread;
detecting an invocation of an email transmission-related function in the email application;
suspending transmission of the email;
creating an email-thread chart, wherein the email-thread chart contains information on people referenced within the email-thread;
displaying the email-thread chart to the user;
receiving user input selecting at least one person in the email-thread chart;
receiving user input to delete all portions of the email-thread related to the selected at least one person;
deleting said all portions of the email thread related to the selected at least one person; and
resuming the transmission of the email.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for discerning and displaying an email-thread chart of senders and recipients (“senders/recipients”) included in an email thread, are disclosed. The email-thread chart may include the senders/recipients arranged in chronological order matching the order in which individual related emails, included in the email thread, were sent and received (the sending/receiving of related emails is hereinafter referred to as “transactions”). The email-thread chart may further include the date-and-time-stamp of the transactions and the labeling of the transactions by transaction type (e.g. “Cced”, “forwarded”, “replied”, etc.) The senders/recipients may be discerned from the body of the email. The body of the email may contain quoted text containing the email thread. The email-thread chart may be displayed automatically in response to a user'"'"'s attempt to send the email to a remote user, or in automatic response to any other user action. The email-thread chart may include a graphical user interface (“GUI”) and may allow the user to select one of the senders/recipients displayed, and to perform numerous functions related to the selected senders/recipients (e.g. delete all references to the selected sender/recipient from the email thread, etc.)
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1. A method for allowing a user to review and modify an email prior to its transmission, comprising:
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providing an electronic device having an email application that is coupled to a network and contains the email which includes an email-thread; detecting an invocation of an email transmission-related function in the email application; suspending transmission of the email; creating an email-thread chart, wherein the email-thread chart contains information on people referenced within the email-thread; displaying the email-thread chart to the user; receiving user input selecting at least one person in the email-thread chart; receiving user input to delete all portions of the email-thread related to the selected at least one person; deleting said all portions of the email thread related to the selected at least one person; and resuming the transmission of the email. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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