Patent ID: 8122086

Claim:
A computerized method for presenting messages to a user, comprising: identifying a collection of messages from a plurality of contributors, the messages having: respective times associated therewith; and a hierarchical reply-related nexus in which at least one message is in reply to at least one other message; forming a sequence from the collection of messages, the sequence having: a chronological order based on the times associated with the messages and independent of the hierarchical reply-related nexus of the messages; and at least one textual identifier annotating a subject message, said at least one textual identifier integrated into the sequence, forming a part of the sequence, and conveying a relationship of the subject message in the sequence to at least one other message in the sequence; presenting the sequence to the user in a presentation having an order based on the chronological order; receiving an activation of said at least one textual identifier annotating the subject message; and at least partly in response to receiving the activation, presenting the at least one other message having the relationship to the subject message.