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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
May. 30, 2014
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Carsten Guenther, San Francisco, CA (US);
Cristobal Baray, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Stephen O. Lemay, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tiffany S. Jon, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Lawrence Yang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Imran Chaudhri, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/22 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); H04L 51/16 (2013.01); H04L 51/24 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a technique for marking email threads as important. When an email thread is marked as important, all email messages belonging to the email thread are marked as important in an email user interface. Also, notifications are generated for any incoming messages belonging to the email thread that has been marked as important.