Patent ID: 7756939

Claim:
A method for improving readability of an email message string displayed on a handheld mobile wireless communication device having a correspondingly limited display area, the string including successive message headers with respective associated message bodies and exceeding an available capacity for simultaneous display of successive text lines, said method comprising: automatically determining parts of such message string that are of interest to a reader; displaying at least a portion of a complete email message string including successive message headers with respective associated message bodies on the handheld mobile wireless communication device; displaying one such determined part of the email message string so as to enhance readability; the step of displaying the one such determined part comprising automatically skipping one message header so as to display a respective message body upon a pre-defined command being detected; upon each repetition of said pre-defined command being detected, automatically skipping at least one further message header if such is still present so as to display a further respective message body, said successive skipping beginning at a marked location in the display, wherein successive repetition of said pre-defined command causes increasing lines of remaining message body text to be simultaneously displayed.