Patent ID: 7413085

Claim:
In a recipient computer system having a graphical user interface including a display and a selection device, a method of segregating paid emails and white list emails from other emails on the display, the method comprising: A) displaying a navigation pane and a content pane in a browser or an email client application window; B) retrieving and displaying in the navigation pane a set of navigation icons including a paid email icon representing an inbox in which the paid emails and the white list emails are displayed and an inbox icon representing a different inbox in which all the other emails which are not the paid emails or the white list emails are displayed; C) receiving a selection signal when a particular icon in the navigation pane is selected with the selection device; D) when the selection signal indicates the paid email icon has been selected, responding to the selection signal by populating the content pane with selected Exsis emails which include in a header of each selected Exsis email, data indicating a micropayment was already made for purposes of sending the selected Exsis email or which indicates the sender of the selected Exsis email is on a white list of the recipient; and E) when the selection signal indicates the inbox icon has been selected, responding to the selection signal by displaying a different content pane in which unpaid emails that are not from a particular sender that which is on a white list of the recipient are displayed.