Patent ID: 8645872

Claim:
A method comprising: maintaining, by a communication device, multiple active communication sessions with multiple other communication devices; displaying, by the communication device on a touch screen display, multiple graphical objects representing the multiple active communication sessions, the multiple graphical objects including non-adjacent graphical objects representing two or more of the multiple active communication sessions included in the multiple active communication sessions, and one or more other graphical objects representing one or more other active communication sessions included in the multiple active communication sessions, the one or more other graphical objects disposed between the non-adjacent graphical objects; detecting, by the communication device, a pinch touch gesture provided by a user on the touch screen display in relation to the non-adjacent graphical objects representing two or more of the multiple active communication sessions; prompting, by the communication device in response to the pinch touch gesture, the user to provide input indicating whether only the active communication sessions represented by the non-adjacent graphical objects are to be merged or whether the active communication sessions represented by the non-adjacent graphical objects as well as all of the other active communication sessions represented by the one or more other graphical objects disposed between the non-adjacent graphical objects are to be merged; receiving, by the communication device from the user, the input indicating which of the multiple active communication sessions are to be merged; and initiating, by the communication device in response to the receiving of the input, a merging of the multiple active communication sessions indicated by the input to form a merged active communication session.