Generating and/or providing access to a message based on portions of the message indicated by a sending user

摘要

Message processing is disclosed that includes detecting an action by a sending user selecting at least one portion of a message. An indication of the selected portion of the message is stored in the message, and the message transmitted to at least one message recipient. Contextually related content from the message for the selected portion may also be indicated in the message. The selected portion or portions of the message may be displayed to a recipient user, and selection by the recipient user of a portion of the message selected by said sending user may be detected. Contextually related content may be retrieved from the message in response detecting the recipient user's selection of the portion of the message selected by said sending user, and the contextually related content displayed to the recipient together with the portion of the message selected by said sending user.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a receiving computer having a display device, at least one processor and a memory communicably coupled to said processor, a message; locating, within said message by said receiving computer, portions of said message selected by a sending user prior to transmission of said message to said receiving computer, responsive to indications of said portions of said message selected by said sending user contained in said message, wherein said indications of said portions of said message selected by said sending user are stored within a body of said message prior to transmission of said message to said receiving computer, and wherein said portions of said message selected by said sending user are at separate locations within said body of said message; displaying, by said receiving computer on said display device, responsive to said indications of said portions of said message selected by said sending user stored in said body of said message, a list of entries, each entry in said list representing a corresponding one of said portions of said message selected by said sending user, wherein each entry includes a link to said corresponding one of said portions of said message selected by said sending user; detecting, by said receiving computer, said recipient user indicating a command; and in response to said detecting of said recipient user indicating said command, said receiving computer copying said list entries into one or more calendar entries within an electronic calendar application available to said recipient user on said receiving computer, detecting a date contained in one of said portions of said message selected by said sending user, automatically bringing up a date entry in said electronic calendar corresponding to said detected date contained in said one of said portions of said message selected by said sending user, and preloading said date entry in said electronic calendar with said one of said portions of said message selected by said sending user and with contextually related content within said message for said one of said portions of said message selected by said sending user.