Patent ID: 7895279

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a first e-mail message; determining whether the received first e-mail message is related to another e-mail message in a mailbox; when, based on the determining, the first e-mail message is not related another e-mail message, displaying a first entry associated with the first e-mail message in a mailbox display; and when, based on the determining, the first e-mail message is related to a second e-mail message, generating an e-mail thread, the e-mail thread associating the first e-mail message and the second e-mail message, the e-mail thread having a thread header including information derived from attributes of at least one of the first or second e-mail messages, and displaying the thread header in the mailbox display as a thread header entry in place of separate mailbox entries for the first e-mail message and the second e-mail message.