Alicia A Thorsen

US Patent:

20120185797, Jul 19, 2012

Filed:

Jan 14, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/007547

Inventors:

Alicia Thorsen - Sunnyvale CA, US
Karl Hsu - Cupertino CA, US
Simon Bovet - Palo Alto CA, US
Neil Jhaveri - Cupertino CA, US
Nick Woods - San Francisco CA, US
Brendan Langoulant - San Francisco CA, US
Jonathan Michael Deutsch - Cupertino CA, US
Angela Guzman - San Jose CA, US
Stephen O. Lemay - Palo Alto CA, US
Patrick L. Coffman - San Francisco CA, US
Stephen Decker - San Francisco CA, US
Judy Halchin - Cupertino CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 3/048
G06F 17/30
G06F 15/16

US Classification:

715784, 709206, 715792, 715781, 707722

Abstract:

Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems determine that an indication that a received message was sent in response to another message is present in the received message, parse a stored message, in response to the indication being present, for at least a partial match between a subject of the received message and contents of a subject of the stored message, and for at least a partial match between sender and recipient participants of the received message and sender and recipient participants of the stored message, and display the received message as grouped with the stored message. A further exemplary feature includes parsing text of the received message for text that is redundant of text of the stored message, determining that a minimum threshold of consecutive matching characters has been reached, and displaying the received message with the consecutive matching characters at least partially hidden from view.