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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 24, 2007
Karen Freeman, Toronto, CA;
David Robert Macphie, Toronto, CA;
Nasahn Adam Sheppard, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Jason Edward Short, San Francisco, CA (US);
Timothy Foster Wallack, New York, NY (US);
Karen Freeman, Toronto, CA;
David Robert Macphie, Toronto, CA;
Nasahn Adam Sheppard, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Jason Edward Short, San Francisco, CA (US);
Timothy Foster Wallack, New York, NY (US);
BCE INC., Verdun, Quebec, CA;
Abstract
A method for notifying a user of a computer having a display about incoming messages stored in an inbox. The method includes the steps of receiving attribute information describing attributes of a plurality of messages in the inbox and generating message visualization structures associated with the respective messages and determining at least one non-textual visual feature of each message visualization structure on the basis of an attribute of a respective message. The method also includes rendering on the display the visualization structures within a graphical environment in which the message visualization structures convey information about the messages and their respective attributes in a non-textual list manner.