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System and method for providing visual representations of email to enable efficient email processing

  • US 9,043,403 B2
  • Filed: 05/10/2013
  • Issued: 05/26/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An email system comprising:

  • one or more processing devices andone or more storage devices storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processing devices, cause the one or more processing devices to;

    receive email;

    parse email content to determine whether a received email has an associated annotation;

    responsive to determining that a received email has an associated annotation, store the email and associated annotation in persistent storage;

    receive a request to access email for a specific recipient;

    select visual representations, based on the parsed email content, for the emails having associated annotations; and

    display an email listing including at least one received email having an associated annotation, where the visual representation for the at least one received email is interactive, allowing a user to communicate a response using the visual representation, and the received email is displayed with its associated visual representation in-line with other email information on the email listing.

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