Patent ID: 9654426
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: storing, by a computing device, an ordered arrangement of message collections on a computing device, the ordered arrangement of message collections including at least a first collection, a second collection, and a third collection; selecting, by the computing device, an active collection from the ordered arrangement of message collections, where one or more other message collections in the ordered arrangement of message collections are inactive collections; displaying, on a display of the computing device, the active collection while the inactive collections are not displayed on the display, wherein the at least first, second and third collections having locations assigned thereto such that each of the at least first, second and third collections is located along a first axis of the display in a fixed order, and wherein each of the at least first, second and third collections is selected to be the active collection and displayed by moving the active collection along the first axis; detecting a swipe gesture applied to a representation of a first message item of the active collection, the swipe gesture being along the first axis and within a screen area occupied by the representation of the first message item; and executing an action on the first message item in response to the detected swipe gesture, wherein executing the action includes: in the event that the first collection is the active collection, the second collection is one of the inactive collections being located in a first direction from the first collection along the first axis, and the swipe gesture is in the first direction and has a first distance traveled that is less than a threshold distance, transferring the first message item to the second collection; in the event that the first collection is the active collection, the second and third collections being both inactive collections, the third collection is located in the first direction further away from the first collection along the first axis than the second collection, and the swipe gesture is in the first direction and has a second distance traveled that is greater than the threshold distance, transferring the first message item to the third collection; and in the event that the third collection is the active collection, the second collection is one of the inactive collections being located in a second direction, opposite the first direction, from the third collection along the first axis, and the swipe gesture is in the second direction and has a second distance traveled that is less than the threshold distance, transferring the first message item to the second collection.