Patent ID: 8832445
Filing Date: 2014-09-09
Classification: H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method for handling electronic messages on a processor-based device, comprising: receiving an electronic message; determining whether one or more portions of the electronic message have one or more encoding properties applied thereto, the encoding properties including digital signature, compression, and encryption; generating, by the processor-based device without user intervention, a visual indication for each portion of the message for use in a display to indicate which of the one or more portions have the one or more of the encoding properties applied thereto; displaying the generated one or more visual indications, wherein for the one or more portions of the electronic message that have the one or more encoding properties applied thereto, the displaying comprises displaying one of the visual indications along with a decoded, readable content portion of the electronic message for each of the determined encoding properties, each of the visual indications indicating lines of the decoded, readable content portion to which one of the encoding properties applies, and indicative of which of the one or more encoding properties applies, each of the visual indications being separate from the decoded, readable content portion, wherein the method further includes refraining from displaying an unreadable encoded content portion when the decoded content portion having the one or more encoding properties applied thereto is displayed, and wherein when one of the encoding properties is the digital signature, one of the visual indications is further configured to indicate whether the digital signature has been validated and a relative strength of a cipher used for the digital signature.