Method and apparatus for facilitating message selection and organization

摘要

One or more messages may be selected and grouped and one or more group-level actions may be initiated for the group, such that the group-level action is performed on each message in the group. Each message in a group shares the at least one attribute value. A messaging user interface may comprise a listing of the set of messages and a message group display portion that displays one or more message groups and a group-level toolbar comprising a selectable indicator for each group-level action. A message, or messages, shown in a message list portion of the user interface may be selected from the message list based on similarity of the message(s) to previously selected messages, and the selected message(s) may be grouping based on shared attribute values. The messages belonging to a group may be modified in the same way via a single action taken on the group.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
providing, via at least one computing device, a messaging user interface comprising a message list portion and a message group display portion, each entry displayed in the message list portion corresponding to a message of a plurality of messages, each message having one or more attributes and corresponding values, each message group indicator displayed in the message group portion representing search criteria comprising at least one attribute value common to each of a number of messages in the message group; receiving, via the at least one computing device, input indicative of a selection of one or more messages displayed in the message list portion of the messaging user interface; in response to receiving the input indicative of a selection of one or more messages:
updating, via the at least one computing device, the message list portion to indicate that each of the one or more messages is a selected message;analyzing, via the at least one computing device, each of the messages selected in the message list portion to identify one or more message groups, each message group having associated search criteria comprising at least one attribute value identified by analyzing each selected message to identify one or more attribute values of at least one selected message; andupdating, via the at least one computing device, the message group display portion to display an indicator for each of the one or more message groups, each message group indicator being selectable by a user to initiate an automatic message selection operation; andin response to input indicative of the user's selection of a message group indicator from the message group display portion, performing an automatic message selection using the search criteria represented by the user-selected message group indicator to identify a number of unselected messages and updating a selection indicator in the message list portion for each of the number of unselected messages that have the at least one attribute value represented by the user-selected message group indicator.