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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2013
Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
George Milton Underwood, IV, San Francisco, CA (US);
Elizabeth Armistead, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sean Beausoleil, San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott Cannon, San Francisco, CA (US);
Adam Cue, San Francisco, CA (US);
Darian Edwards, San Francisco, CA (US);
Steven Flory, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eleanor Luna, San Francisco, CA (US);
DROPBOX, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for sorting messages within an interface including providing a navigational menu with at least three menu options of at least three message collections, the menu options ordered according to an ordered horizontal virtual arrangement of a set of message collections; upon receiving user selection of one of the menu options, activating the message collection corresponding to the user selected menu option, which comprises—displaying the message collection of the selected menu option and virtually positioning the remaining set of message collections off screen; within the active message collection of the set of message collections, detecting a gesture swipe in a horizontal direction; selecting a sorting option corresponding to a message collection virtually positioned in the horizontal direction relative to the active message collection; and transferring the message to the message collection of the selected sorting option.