Patent ID: 8954510
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of managing a string of emails and comments added to the emails by recipients of the emails, the method comprising: receiving the string of emails; determining that the email is text format, and in response identifying one or more lines within the email that begin with a first number of symbols that is greater than a number of symbols in any subsequent line within the string of emails following the at least one line, each of the symbols indicating that a respective line is part or all of a comment to one of the emails or part or all of one of the string of emails, a lesser number of symbols indicating a more recent comment or email than a greater number of symbols; and deleting from the string all emails other than a latest email in the string and substituting respective links to the deleted emails, and deleting the comments in the lines that begin with more symbols than the first number of symbols and substituting respective links to the deleted comments.