Patent ID: 8065369

Claim:
A contact-based message organization and display system comprising: memory; one or more processors operatively coupled to the memory and disposed within one or more devices; a receiving component, stored in the memory and executed on the one or more processors, that receives a plurality of communications; a people-based classification component that organizes the plurality of communications according to a plurality of contacts who sent the plurality of communications; and a multi-view display component configured to present desired communications of the plurality of communications based at least in part on ones of the plurality of contacts associated with the desired communications, the multi-view display component including a separate view configured to display attachments shared between the user and the ones of the contacts in the desired communications, wherein the attachments shared were sent with or included in the desired communications, wherein at least one of the attachments displayed in the separate view is selectable to cause an associated desired communication that the at least one of the attachments was sent with or included in to be displayed by the multi-view display component, and further wherein the multi-view display component is further configured to extract the attachments from the desired communications for display in the separate view.