Patent ID: 8522168

Claim:
A system for navigating posts in a discussion including parent posts and child posts, each of the child posts being in reply to a respective one of the parent posts, wherein a further reply can be made to any of the child posts and wherein multiple child posts can be made in reply to respective ones of the parent or child posts, the method comprising: a server including: a communications device configured to receive the posts; and a message store configured to store the posts, the server being configured to provide to a client, using the communications device, access to: a formatter configured to arrange the posts in the discussion linearly one below another in an arrangement including a parent post and a child post of the parent post, and to provide display frameworks around respective ones of the posts, the display frameworks varying depending at least upon parent-child relationship, there being at least three different types of frameworks; a parent navigator which, when actuated, causes a copy of the parent post to be inserted adjacent its child post while retaining the parent post in the arrangement, wherein the parent post is included more than once in the arrangement; and; a child navigator which, when actuated, causes the copy of the parent post to be inserted adjacent its child post.