Patent ID: 7714863

Claim:
A method of displaying a plurality of electronic messages in a computerized message system, comprising: retrieving the electronic messages from at least one electronic message directory, wherein the electronic messages comprise distinct modalities of electronic communication, wherein the plurality of electronic messages contains technically related and technically unrelated messages; generating a multidimensional diagram on a graphics user interface; converting the electronic messages into graphics symbols, wherein messages associated with different contacts are represented by graphics symbols configured to uniquely identify the different contacts, and further wherein messages associated with the distinct modalities of electronic communication are represented by graphics symbols configured to uniquely identify the distinct modalities of electronic communication; and arranging each graphics symbol in the multidimensional diagram based on at least one attribute of the respective electronic message, wherein a display position of the respective graphics symbol in the multidimensional diagram is determined from the attribute; defining a threshold value indicative of a probabilistic value of technical relationship between at least two of the messages; and graphically connecting the graphics symbols corresponding to said at least two of the electronic messages to indicate the technical relationship between said at least two messages when the threshold value is exceeded, thereby allowing a user to graphically search for technically retated messages in the plurality of electronic messages containing technically related and technically unrelated messages, wherein each of the preceding steps of retrieving, generating, converting, arranging, defining and graphically connecting is performed by a computer coupled to the message system.