Patent ID: 7484177
Filing Date: 2009-01-27
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A wireless device, comprising: a viewing screen; a memory device that stores electronic messages that have been transmitted or received by the wireless device; and messaging software configured to display a current electronic message on the viewing screen; upon displaying the current electronic message on the viewing screen, the messaging software being further configured to automatically filter each of the electronic messages stored in the memory device to identify one or more select messages meeting a pre-set criteria, and automatically display the one or more select messages on the viewing screen along with the current electronic message; wherein the one or more select messages and the current electronic message are displayed as a single thread on the viewing screen, and wherein the software operations of automatically filtering each of the electronic messages stored in the memory device and automatically displaying the one or more selected messages are performed by the messaging software without requiring user input; wherein the pre-set criteria is an address matching condition between an outside address of the one or more select messages and an outside address of the current electronic message.