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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2014
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Phillip Sharp, Mountain View, CA (US);
David Nachum, San Francisco, CA (US);
Keith Coleman, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Xander Pollock, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jason Briggs Cornwell, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for managing electronic messages are disclosed. In some implementations, a method includes, at a computing device, causing an electronic message to be displayed to a user in an electronic message folder. Responsive to detecting that the user has read at least a portion of the electronic message, without user intervention, the electronic message is removed from the electronic message folder. In some implementations, the electronic message folder is a message inbox and the electronic message is removed from the message inbox to an archive or delete folder. In some implementations, the computing device includes one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors.