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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2007
Radha Neelakantan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Peter Fry, Andover, MA (US);
Richard J. Donald, Brentwood, CA (US);
Manisha D. Parekh, Mountain View, CA (US);
David G. Champlin, San Diego, CA (US);
Lang S. Chen, Oakland, CA (US);
Benoit Boningue, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ryan Case, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Radha Neelakantan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Peter Fry, Andover, MA (US);
Richard J. Donald, Brentwood, CA (US);
Manisha D. Parekh, Mountain View, CA (US);
David G. Champlin, San Diego, CA (US);
Lang S. Chen, Oakland, CA (US);
Benoit Boningue, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ryan Case, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Palm, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques involving messaging applications are disclosed. For example, an apparatus may include a communications interface module and a messaging module. The communications interface module may receive an incoming message of a conversation thread that is originated by a remote device. The incoming message includes a text portion and an attached media item. The messaging module automatically outputs the incoming message to a user interface in an output format. This output format includes both the text portion and content of the attached media item. The attached media item may be of various types. Examples of media items include video files, audio files, image files, resource locators, and application files. The embodiments, however are not limited to these examples.