Patent Document ID: 8051138
Application ID: 12986145

Base Claim:
1. A machine implemented method, comprising: receiving user input from a user; in response to the user input, accessing a plurality of electronic mail messages (emails), including a certain email, that are part of an email conversation; extracting content from each of the accessed emails, including the certain email; automatically generating a composite email which includes the content extracted from each of the accessed emails; obtaining a set of markup information indicating one or more markups that were previously made to the content of the certain email, wherein the set of markup information is separate from the content of the certain email; and applying the one or more markups to the content of the certain email to derive a marked up version of the content of the certain email in the composite email.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more markups include one or more reminders that have been associated with at least a portion of the content of the certain email.