Patent ID: 7627828

Claim:
A method of graphically representing users of a messaging system, comprising: at a client system having one or more processors and memory: associating a particular graphical user identifier with a first user; displaying the particular graphical user identifier to a second user in response to user initiated selections by the second user of information items in the messaging system that are associated with the first user; in a contact information editing mode, displaying to the second user multiple graphical user identifier candidates distinct from the particular graphical user identifier; and in response to a user selection by the second user, replacing the particular graphical user identifier, for display at the client system, with a second user-selected one of the multiple graphical user identifier candidates; after the replacing, displaying the second user-selected graphical user identifier to the second user in response to user initiated selections by the second user of information items in the messaging system that are associated with the first user.