Patent ID: 8239462

Claim:
A computer-implemented method comprising: identifying, by a computing system, a first electronic message that is divided into one or more segments, each of the segments of the first electronic message having a unique identifier; storing the first electronic message in a repository with unique identifiers of the segments; displaying the first electronic message including the segments to a recipient of the first electronic message in an original form that does not illustrate a division of the first electronic message into the segments; allowing the recipient of the first electronic message to select any of the segments individually while the first electronic message is being displayed to the recipient of the first electronic message in the original form; allowing the recipient of the first electronic message to provide a second electronic message to comment on the selected segment of the first electronic message while preventing the recipient of the first electronic message from modifying the selected segment of the first electronic message; creating an object for the second electronic message; associating the identifier of the selected segment of the first electronic message with the object of the second electronic message in the repository; and sending, to a recipient of the second electronic message, an object of the first electronic message and the object of the second electronic message in association with the identifier of the selected segment of the first electronic message, wherein the second electronic message will be displayed to the recipient as a note adjacent to the selected segment of the first electronic message.