Patent ID: 8543656

Claim:
A method of enhancing an e-mail user interface by an e-mail application, comprising: identifying by the receiving e-mail application an e-mail having one or more attachments having content that can be visually rendered; rendering a window at a location proximate to said e-mail on an inbox view list of e-mails to provide to a user a visual connection to said e-mail; providing within said window user controls to enable selection and display of one or a sequence of said attachments without opening said e-mail, wherein said attachments comprise a plurality of images and said user controls within said window enable rendering successive ones of a sequence of said images, where at least one of said images is not visible within said window with other ones of said images; and rendering an image of the content of an attachment of said e-mail within said window such that a majority of said content is visible within said image, said image being sized to fit within the window without scrolling.