Apple Inc.

Nick Woods

Stephen Olivier Lemay

Patrick L Coffman

Brendan John Langoulant

Simon Bovet

Judy Halchin

Stephen M Decker

Neil V Jhaveri

Angela Guzman

Karl Hsu

Jonathan Michael Deutsch

Alicia Thorsen

Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems determine that an indication that a received message was sent in response to another message is present in the received message, parse a stored message, in response to the indication being present, for at least a partial match between a subject of the received message and contents of a subject of the stored message, and for at least a partial match between sender and recipient participants of the received message and sender and recipient participants of the stored message, and display the received message as grouped with the stored message. A further exemplary feature includes parsing text of the received message for text that is redundant of text of the stored message, determining that a minimum threshold of consecutive matching characters has been reached, and displaying the received message with the consecutive matching characters at least partially hidden from view.

Grouping email messages into conversations

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Nick Woods