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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2010
Eric M. Wilcox, Winchester, MA (US);
Jodi L. Coppinger, Merrimack, NH (US);
Bernard J. Kerr, Boston, MA (US);
Paul B. Moody, Hyde Park, VT (US);
Eric M. Wilcox, Winchester, MA (US);
Jodi L. Coppinger, Merrimack, NH (US);
Bernard J. Kerr, Boston, MA (US);
Paul B. Moody, Hyde Park, VT (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method is provided to assist a user in selecting, identifying, and handling email messages. A selection color module may provide for the display of color coding and selection highlighting. The selection color module may provide a secondary highlighting color to indicate messages related to a selected message. A category navigation module may provide one or more of the following: an indicator that provides the user with a number of items that are off the screen for a particular category, a command that causes the first entry for a category to be scrolled into view, a label to indicate the number of items in a particular category matching a particular criteria, and/or a control for scrolling between next or previous categories.