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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2010
Justin Edward Santamaria, San Francisco, CA (US);
Bryan Prusha, Campbell, CA (US);
Marcel Van Os, San Francisco, CA (US);
Justin Edward Santamaria, San Francisco, CA (US);
Bryan Prusha, Campbell, CA (US);
Marcel Van Os, San Francisco, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is performed on a handheld device that involves receiving a search term and searching through stored text message information of multiple text messages for the search term. A listing of text message conversations are listed on the display where each listed conversation has at least one text message whose text message information was found to include the search term. And, in response to a user selection of one of the conversations, a sequence of text messages within the one selected conversation is displayed.