Google Inc.

Sharvil Nanavati

Gregory Matthew Marra

Benjamin David Eidelson

Sean Liu

Jason Prado

Anish Acharya

Ye-Jeong Kim

Fred Peter Gilbert

Aaron David Kemp

Punit Singh Soni

Jonathan Gordon Sharkey

William Christian Ferrell

A system and method for presenting a group conversation on an electronic device of a user, via displaying, on a graphical user interface of the device, a group of contacts with which the user can communicate, the group of contacts comprising one or more individual contacts and one or more social circles which define a preset collection of contacts associated with one another. User input is received via the graphical user interface, the user input specifying a selection of participants from the group of contacts for a group conversation. The group conversation provides for sharing communication messages among the participants. A conversation window is presented on the graphical user interface. The conversation window displays a collection of contact icons with each contact icon respectively corresponding to one of the selected participants of the group conversation, and a conversation thread with the shared communication messages.

Group conversation between a plurality of participants

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Sharvil Nanavati