Patent ID: 8909715

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for managing messages, the computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a message at a data processing system, wherein the message comprises a number of message identifiers and a received metadata, wherein each of the message identifiers uniquely identifies a respective prior message in a message history representative of a real-time communication and wherein the received metadata identifies the message received as a particular message containing the message identifiers associated with a selected number of prior messages in the message history stored in the data processing system; determining whether the message received contains the received metadata identifying the message received as the particular message using the received metadata; responsive to a determination that the message received contains the received metadata, identifying each respective prior message, using the message identifiers, in the message history on the data processing system to form an identified number of messages; and displaying a presence of the identified number of messages in the message history on a display in the data processing system.