MANAGING CONVERSATIONS

摘要

Technologies are generally described for providing a system to facilitate efficient management and prioritization of conversations, such as emails, in a communication application. Conversations may be prioritized according to user preferences, and an inbox may be rearranged to display important conversations in a user defined order. Conversations may also be associated together so that they may appear together and flow together in the inbox. Additionally, the system may enable a user to delay display of a conversation until a later time based on various criteria such as location, time, and client device. A user may also move important emails to the top of an inbox for prominent display. The system may perform the actions automatically based on observed user behavior. Furthermore, the system may enable touch interactions for interacting with and managing the conversations, and quick controls may be provided for executing commands to perform actions associated with the conversations.

主权项

1. A method to be executed in a computing device for managing conversations in a communication application, the method comprising:
detecting activation of a renew action associated with a message selected among a plurality of messages displayed in a chronological order on a user interface of the communication application; displaying the selected message as a renewed message at a top of the chronological order, wherein a read state of the selected message is maintained in the renewed message, and an original header and a body of the selected message is preserved in the renewed message without an insertion of a forward header to the selected message; and in response to receiving new messages in the communication application, maintaining the renewed message at the top of the chronological order such that the renewed message remains at the top of the chronological order for a predefined period of time, and the renewed message continues to flow chronologically with the other messages in the communication application upon an expiration of the predefined period of time.