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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2015
Filed:
May. 22, 2013
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Paul T. Buchheit, Mountain View, CA (US);
Lauren M. Baptist, Mountain View, CA (US);
Bay-Wei W. Chang, Foster City, CA (US);
Seth J. Golub, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jing Yee Lim, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sanjeev Singh, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Russell R. Tuck, III, San Jose, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for processing messages includes receiving a plurality of messages directed to a user. Each of the plurality of messages is associated with a respective conversation and list of conversations is displayed in an order determined in accordance with second predefined criteria, as a set of rows, where each row corresponds to one of the listed conversations and includes at least a sender list, a conversation topic and a date/time value. A user is enabled to identify one or more conversations in the list of conversations, to mark the identified conversations as belonging to a particular category, and to display another list of conversations comprising conversations marked as belonging to the particular category. A user may cause a conversation to be removed from certain displays, but to become visible again after the passage of a certain amount of time or the occurrence of an event.