Patent ID: 8239874
Filing Date: 2012-08-07
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method executed by a computing device for focusing messages in an inbox by highlighting, said method comprising: displaying, by the computing device, messages in a preexisting order free of highlighting; receiving, by the computing device, category information defining one or more categories to be associated with the displayed messages or senders of the displayed messages; setting, by the computing device, a status data associated with each of the displayed messages, said status data indicating to which of the defined categories in the received category information each of the displayed messages corresponds; receiving, by the computing device, a first instruction from a user for visually focusing on the displayed messages having an identical, specified status data associated therewith; visually focusing, by the computing device, on the displayed messages having the identical, specified status data associated therewith collectively by highlighting said displayed messages without altering the preexisting order of the displayed messages and without altering the visual display of the displayed messages not having identical, specified status data associated therewith; providing, by the computing device, a toolbar having at least one option for performing an operation on the visually focused displayed messages, said operation changing the status data of the visually focused displayed messages; and persisting, by the computing device, a changed state of the status data of the visually focused displayed messages.