Patent ID: 7028263

Claim:
A wireless device, comprising: a viewing screen; a processor; a memory device that stores short messaging service (SMS) electronic messages that have been transmitted or received by the wireless device; and a message software interface module executed by the processor that (a) displays a current SMS electronic message on the viewing screen, (b) automatically filters each of the SMS electronic messages stored in the memory device to identify one or more select SMS messages meeting a pre-set criteria, and (c) automatically displays the one or more select SMS messages on the viewing screen along with the current SMS electronic message, wherein the one or more select SMS messages and the current SMS electronic message are displayed as a single thread on the viewing screen; wherein after the current SMS electronic message is displayed on the viewing screen, the message software interface module is configured to perform the operations of (b) automatically filtering each of the SMS electronic messages stored in the memory device and (c) automatically displaying the one or more select SMS messages without requiring user input.