Patent ID: 7979499

Claim:
A method of browsing a browsed e-mail in an e-mail system, said e-mail including a Global-ID and a Reply-to-ID, comprising: opening and browsing the browsed e-mail with a computing device, the email including an expiration time; displaying the content of the browsed e-mail to a user; fetching with the computing device the Reply-to-ID of the browsed e-mail; determining whether the fetched Reply-to-ID is null; retrieving an e-mail whose Global-ID corresponds to the fetched Reply-to-ID from stored e-mail's; determining that the expiration time has not passed; after determining that the expiration has not passed, incorporating the content of the retrieved e-mail into the browsed e-mail; fetching the Reply-to-ID of the retrieved e-mail; and repeating the steps of determining, retrieving, incorporating and fetching, until the fetched Reply-to-ID is null or the step of retrieving cannot find an e-mail whose Global-ID corresponds to the fetched Reply-to-ID.