Patent ID: 9398395
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for grouping and displaying messages exchanged between a sender and multiple recipients in a sender terminal, the method comprising: sending, by the sender terminal, a first message including a first tag to a plurality of recipient terminals, wherein the first tag is created by the sender terminal; receiving, by the sender terminal, a second message from at least one of the recipient terminals, wherein the second message includes a second tag which is created by a corresponding recipient terminal; grouping, by the sender terminal, the received second message into a related message group based on the first tag and the second tag, wherein (i) each of the first tag and the second tag includes a message identification (ID) for a message grouping, and (ii) a message ID of the second tag is generated by appending a predetermined additional tag value to a message ID of the first tag according to a sequential tag addition scheme; and displaying, by the sender terminal, the received second messages within the related message group.