Patent ID: 8875030

Claim:
A method, comprising: outputting, for display within a graphical user interface of an e-mail application on a display device, an e-mail item listing, wherein each item of the e-mail item listing corresponds to a respective e-mail message and includes a plurality of fields that are arranged adjacent to one another, and each field includes text that relates to the respective e-mail message displayed against a background color; identifying one or more fields from the plurality of fields of the e-mail item listing in which the text in the field includes a displayed value that matches a pre-determined value; applying a color coding to only the one or more identified fields by replacing the background color of the one or more identified fields with the color coding, wherein the color coding is visually distinguishable from the background color; receiving an input from an input device to select either an item of the e-mail item listing that includes a color coded field or an item related to the item that includes the color coded field; and applying a selection highlighting to all of the fields from the item that includes the color coded field except for the identified one or more fields having an applied color coded field by replacing the background color of all of the fields from the item except for the identified one or more fields having an applied color coded field with the selection highlighting so that the applied selection highlighting is visually distinguishable in color from the color coded field and the background color.