Patent Document ID: 9729479
Application ID: 14714251

Base Claim:
1. A method for providing contextual hints in an electronic message, comprising: receiving a command to create a reply message to an original electronic message, the original electronic message comprising original text; determining one or more topics in the original text, the one or more topics summarizing one or more contexts in the original text; displaying the reply message with the one or more topics as contextual hints for the original text displayed as temporary text in a body of the reply message; receiving response text into the body of the reply message, corresponding to the one or more topics displayed as temporary text in the body of the reply message, from a user using the contextual hints while composing the reply message; receiving a command to send the reply message; removing the one or more topics displayed as temporary text from the body of the reply message in response to receiving the command to send the reply message; and sending the reply message with only the response text in the body of the reply message.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the displaying of the reply message with the one or more topics as the temporary text in the body of the reply message comprises: displaying the temporary text according to pre-configured parameters comprising one or more of a maximum length; a font; and a size.