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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2004
Louis Robert Litwin, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Purvin Bibhas Pandit, Somerset, NJ (US);
Louis Robert Litwin, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Purvin Bibhas Pandit, Somerset, NJ (US);
Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
A system and method for allowing users to associate various e-mails within at least one of the user's mailboxes under a common discussion topic or 'thread' for organizational purposes. This user-controlled organization may be carried out regardless if the e-mails which are desired to be associated are from different senders and/or have different subject headings. An e-mail message may be associated to/designated under a user-defined discussion topic or associated to another e-mail. At the user's discretion, information about the e-mail's associated discussion topic and/or associated e-mails may be stored and kept locally with the user's mailbox, or alternatively, information about the e-mail's associations may be transmitted when that e-mail is sent to a recipient user.