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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2013
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Paul T. Buchheit, Mountain View, CA (US);
Lauren M. Baptist, Mountain View, CA (US);
Bay-Wei W. Chang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Seth J. Golub, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jing Yee Lim, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sanjeev Singh, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Russel R. Tuck, III, San Jose, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
System and method for storing a plurality of conversations are provided. Each such conversation has a corresponding conversation identifier and one or more messages sharing a common set of characteristics that meet predefined criteria. Information is sent to a remote computer identifying the conversations and providing sufficient information to rank them in accordance with a date/time value of a most recently received message of each conversation thereby causing a first conversation to be ordered before a second conversation. Subsequently, a first message that is deemed to belong to the second conversation is obtained and added to the second conversation. Information is resent to a remote computer identifying the plurality of conversations and providing sufficient information to rank the plurality of conversations in accordance with a date/time value of a most recently received message of each respective conversation thereby causing the first conversation to be ordered after the second conversation.