Patent ID: 7548954

Claim:
A method for improving readability of an email message string displayed on a handheld mobile wireless communication device having a correspondingly limited display area, the string including successive message headers with their respective associated message bodies and exceeding an available capacity for simultaneous display of successive text lines, said method comprising: automatically determining parts of such message string having possibly greater interest to a reader; displaying at least a portion of a complete email message string including successive message headers with their respective associated message bodies on the handheld mobile wireless communication device; displaying one such determined part of the email message string so as to enhance its readability; the step of displaying the one such determined part comprising automatically deleting from such display one message header upon a pre-defined user command being detected; upon each repetition of said pre-defined user command being detected, automatically deleting from such display at least one further message header if such is still present, said successive deletions beginning at a user-marked location in the display, wherein successive repetition of said pre-defined user command causes increasing lines of remaining message body text to be simultaneously displayed to the user.