Patent ID: 9647964
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04M

Claim:
1. A method usable by an electronic device, the method comprising: displaying content of a plurality of transmitted and received conversation messages for a first date, sequentially sorted by date and time, wherein the messages for the first date comprise a particular message, one or more messages following the particular message, and one or more messages preceding the particular message; detecting a first touch on a touch screen of the particular message; detecting a second touch on the touch screen; responsive to the second detected touch, wherein the second touch comprises a swipe immediately preceding a release of the second touch, scrolling messages for a second date onto the screen, wherein the scrolling of the message is performed concurrently with the swipe; in response to the release of the second touch following the swipe: compressing the scrolled messages for the second date separately from the first date, wherein compressing the messages comprises stacking the particular message and the one or more messages following the particular message for the first date; displaying the one or more messages preceding the particular message for the first date; displaying a first image element representing the compressed particular message and the one or more message following the particular message for the first date; and displaying a second image element representing the compressed scrolled messages for the second date.