Patent ID: 9509848
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: G06Q,H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A device comprising: a messaging application for receiving a sequence of user-consumable messages directed to at least one destination user; non-volatile storage comprising one or more non-volatile storage devices for storing said messages, the messages consisting of a number of consumed ones of said messages having been consumed by the destination user, and a number of unconsumed ones of said messages not yet having been consumed by the user; and an automatic message manager configured to implement different respective retention policies for the consumed messages and the unconsumed messages such that the number of consumed messages affects neither retention nor deletion of the unconsumed messages, and the number of unconsumed messages affects neither retention nor deletion of the consumed messages, the retention policy for the consumed messages comprising automatically determining when the number of consumed messages exceeds a threshold for consumed messages, and in response automatically deleting at least one of the consumed messages from the non-volatile storage so as to bring the number of consumed messages back within the threshold for consumed messages.