Patent ID: 8195748

Claim:
A computer-implementable method for mapping a plurality of received electronic mail (email) messages to a plurality of predetermined graphical representations of an email Inbox, comprising: associating, via a computer system, predetermined sender and originating information with an email that is to be received by a recipient; using, via the computer system, the associated predetermined sender and originating information to depict an originating location of a received email message in a graphical display; generating, via the computer system, status information comprising received email messages; and applying, via the computer system, display attributes to predetermined email Inbox graphical representations, the display attributes indicating the status information of received email messages mapped to the predetermined email Inbox graphical representations; and wherein the plurality of email Inbox graphical representations comprises a geographical map, the geographical map further comprising a plurality of geographical subsets, the geographical subsets being configurable to implement at least one email Inbox graphical representation.