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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2006
Applicants:
Marc Bishop, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Derrick Whittle, Marietta, GA (US);
Tracy Hsu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
YAHOO! INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); H04L 67/36 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
Email functions, such as, for example, reply, reply to all, forward, delete, mark as unread, and mark as spam are made accessible to a user through a browser independent sidebar. In one embodiment, email messages stored by an email service provider comprise a first identifier used by a first email retrieval client and a second identifier used by the sidebar. In one embodiment, a protocol used by the sidebar to retrieve messages is augmented to comprise the first identifier, so that the sidebar can use email functions, such as, for example, mark as spam, that identify messages using the first identifier.