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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2012
AL Chakra, Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
Feng-wei Chen, Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
Heng Chu, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Chad L. Smith, Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
Al Chakra, Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
Feng-Wei Chen, Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
Heng Chu, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Chad L. Smith, Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for message thread management using dynamic pointers. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for message thread management using dynamic pointers is provided. The method includes selecting a message thread in a message inbox of a messaging client, comparing characteristics of the message thread to a pre-established set of criteria, and removing the selected message thread to remote storage, generating a message thread pointer to the selected message thread and inserting the message thread pointer into the message inbox in place of the selected message thread in response to the characteristics of the message thread satisfying the criteria.