Patent ID: 8489146

Claim:
A method in a mobile communication device having a limited-width display screen, comprising: receiving electronic messages at the mobile communication device; displaying a list on the display screen, each row of the list containing a sender field and a subject field for a respective one of the messages, the sender field and the subject field of at least one row being truncated so that not all of the text characters for the sender field and the subject field are displayed because of the limited width of the display screen; receiving a selection of the at least one row in which the sender field and the subject field are truncated; displaying, over the summary data list, a dialog box displaying all of the text characters for the sender field and the subject field for the selected message, without opening the electronic message of the selected row; and toggling between a first mode and a second mode, in the first mode the sender field in the dialog box contains all the text characters for an email address of the message's sender, and in the second mode the sender field in the dialog box contains all the text characters of a corresponding friendly address of the message's sender, the toggling occurring upon each receipt by the mobile communication device of a predetermined input.