Patent Document ID: 9665850
Application ID: 12142927

Base Claim:
1. A method for providing a unified conversation-centric message list and message reading pane, the method comprising: organizing a plurality of messages by conversation; providing a list view of the plurality of messages organized by conversation, the plurality of messages organized by conversation provided in the list view being stored in a plurality of different folders; providing a content view of the plurality of messages organized by conversation; presenting a unified user interface simultaneously displaying the list view and the content view; bi-directionally synchronizing between the list view and the content view, wherein bi-directionally synchronizing comprises: indicating a message within the list view as selected; in response to indicating the message within the list view as selected, navigating the plurality of messages of the content view and opening for reading a corresponding message as the selected message within the content view; indicating a message within the list view as selected in response to a corresponding message within the content view being selected; and displaying a list view pipe within the list view, the list view pipe showing a reply to connection between at least a display of a broken out message and a display of a parent message in the conversation, the list view pipe comprising a plurality of indicators which display a relationship between an entire chain of displayed messages.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein bi-directionally synchronizing further comprises scrolling the reading pane to display a message in response to a corresponding message within the list view being selected.