Patent ID: 8407603

Claim:
A method, comprising: at a portable electronic device with a touch screen display: displaying a list of instant messaging conversations including a group conversation, wherein: the group conversation includes a first multi-recipient identifier and a group conversation indicia, the group conversation indicia corresponds to a set of outgoing messages from a user of the device to multiple recipients, and the first multi-recipient identifier and the group conversation indicia are distinct from one another; in response to detecting a user selection of the group conversation, displaying the set of outgoing messages from the user of the device to multiple recipients in a chronological order and displaying a detail icon adjacent to a second multi-recipient identifier; in response to detecting a user selection of the detail icon, replacing the second multi-recipient identifier with a set of contact icons, each contact icon representing one of the multiple recipients; in response to detecting a user selection of one of the set of contact icons, displaying contact information of a corresponding recipient; receiving a new outgoing message for the group conversation entered by the user of the device through the touch screen display; and in response to detecting a user request to send the new outgoing message to the multiple recipients: sending the new outgoing message to the multiple recipients in the group conversation; and appending the new outgoing message to the set of outgoing messages displayed on the touch screen display.