Patent ID: 8621022

Claim:
A method, performed at a server system having one or more processors and memory storing programs executed by the one or more processors, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of messages associated with a user, each message having a unique message identifier, wherein each of the plurality of messages is associated with a respective conversation, each conversation having a respective conversation identifier and comprising a set of one or more related messages; receiving, from a client, a request for a list of conversations associated with the user; and sending, to the client, display information for displaying a list of conversations comprising a set of rows, each conversation in the list of conversations being represented as a single row in the set of rows and including a sender list including representations of senders of messages associated with a corresponding conversation wherein: the list of conversations includes a first row representing a first conversation and a second row representing a second conversation; the first row includes a first recipient indicator that indicates that the user is a primary recipient of a message in the first conversation; and the second row includes a second recipient indicator, different from the first recipient indicator, that indicates that the user is a secondary recipient of a message in the second conversation; wherein a single field in each of the individual rows in the list of conversations is provided for presentation of both the first recipient indicator and the second recipient indicator; and wherein the first recipient indicator is a first symbol that is not used to identify the primary recipient and the second recipient indicator is a second symbol that is not used to identify the secondary recipient.