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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 2017
Filed:
May. 16, 2014
Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Gideon M. Myles, Oakland, CA (US);
DROPBOX, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Messages can be managed based on expiration dates. For instance, a message having an expiration date can be removed from the recipient's inbox until the expiration date becomes imminent, automatically restored to the inbox when the expiration date becomes imminent, and automatically expired from the inbox (e.g., by deleting the message) after the expiration date has passed. Expirable messages can be identified based on user input and/or automatic extraction of expiration-date information from the message. Visual indicators can be used to distinguish a message whose expiration date is imminent from other messages in the inbox.