Patent ID: 7421690
Filing Date: 2008-09-02
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system for threading e-mail messages, comprising: a mailbox processor module for receiving e-mail messages including a first e-mail message and a second e-mail message; a mailbox, communicatively coupled to the mailbox processor module, for electronically storing the received e-mail messages; a threading engine, communicatively coupled to the mailbox processor module, for: a display device operable to display information about one or more received e-mail messages in a user interface including displaying information from at least one unthreaded e-mail message and thread header information, the displayed thread header information being distinct from information displayed for individual e-mail messages and where the thread header information is displayed in the mailbox in place of mailbox entries for the first e-mail message and the second e-mail message associated with the e-mail thread.