Patent ID: 6965918

Claim:
A method of managing a plurality of messages stored in a plurality of individual messaging accounts associated with a single user, the method comprising: providing an account database associated with a server, wherein the account database stores at least one of passwords or user IDs corresponding to the plurality of individual messaging accounts; receiving an access request to access selected ones of the plurality of individual messaging accounts associated with the single user, wherein the selected ones of the plurality of individual messaging accounts are determined based on information associated with the single user; authorizing access to the server based on authorization information associated with the single user; accessing the account database to retrieve at least one of the passwords or the user IDs corresponding to the selected ones of the plurality of individual messaging accounts; accessing the selected ones of the plurality of individual messaging accounts by providing the corresponding passwords and/or user IDs to the selected ones of the plurality of individual messaging accounts; and retrieving a report of messages that are pending from the selected ones of the plurality of individual messaging accounts, wherein the messages that are pending include one or more messages that are new and one or more messages that have been reported in a previous report.