Patent ID: 8762892

Claim:
A method comprising: selecting a visualization scheme on a user device from a set of visualization schemes that are different from each other, each visualization scheme being designed to emphasize a subset of message properties, the message properties comprising properties relating to content of a message and properties related to transmission of the message; displaying, on a touch screen of the user device, messages addressed to a user, that are received by the user device, based upon the selected visualization scheme, a first visualization scheme of the set of visualization schemes causing a first of the messages to be displayed with emphasis on a first property of the first of the messages and a second visualization scheme of the set of visualization schemes causing the first of the messages to be displayed with emphasis on a second property of the first of the messages, the first property of the first of the messages and the second property of the first of the messages being different, wherein in the first visualization scheme, a first message comprises first text data and a first image, and the first message is displayed in a first region in either a first representation or a second representation, the first representation displaying the first text data and not the first image, the second representation displaying the first image and not the first text data; detecting a gesture by the user on the touch screen of the user device; and mapping the gesture to an action that is to be performed by the user device, wherein the mapping of the gesture is dependent upon the selected visualization scheme and wherein the action comprises an interaction by the user device with one of the messages.