Patent ID: 7917591

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a plurality of emails for a particular user of an email client; determining, by a webmail provider, that the plurality of emails includes a set of video emails, each video email of the set referencing a video from within a body of the video email without containing a video attachment; receiving a first user-interaction from the particular user to login to an email account of the particular user; in response to the first user-interaction to login to the email account of the particular user, causing the email client to display at least two folders; wherein a first folder of the at least two folders is an inbox that includes one or more of the plurality of emails for the particular user; wherein a second folder of the at least two folders is a video folder that includes the set of video emails; wherein each video email of the set is placed by the webmail provider in the video folder; receiving a second user-interaction selecting the video folder displayed by the email client; in response to a second user-interaction selecting the video folder, causing the email client to display a list of thumbnail images, each thumbnail image of the list corresponding to a video referenced by a different video email in the set of video emails; receiving a third user-interaction, from the particular user of the email client, selecting a particular thumbnail image from the list of thumbnail images; in response to the third user-interaction, initiating playback, of a particular video referenced by a particular video email of the set that corresponds to the particular thumbnail image, to the user; wherein the third user-interaction causes the particular video to be displayed within the email client without launching an application separate from the email client; wherein the third user-interaction causes the particular video to be displayed by streaming the particular video for playback within an area of the email client where a body of an email is usually displayed; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.