Retrieving and snoozing categorized conversations in a conversation-based email system

摘要

A method and system for processing messages includes receiving a plurality of messages directed to a user. Each of the plurality of messages is associated with a respective conversation and list of conversations is displayed in an order determined in accordance with second predefined criteria, as a set of rows, where each row corresponds to one of the listed conversations and includes at least a sender list, a conversation topic and a date/time value. A user is enabled to identify one or more conversations in the list of conversations, to mark the identified conversations as belonging to a particular category, and to display another list of conversations comprising conversations marked as belonging to the particular category. A user may cause a conversation to be removed from certain displays, but to become visible again after the passage of a certain amount of time or the occurrence of an event.

主权项

1. A method of processing messages, comprising:
at a computer system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs executed by the one or more processors: receiving a plurality of messages directed to a particular user; determining a respective conversation for each of the plurality of messages; sending to a client system for display, a first list of conversations including the respective conversation, as a set of rows, each row corresponding to one of the listed conversations and including at least a sender list configured by the computer system to include only identifiers of senders of messages in the conversation corresponding to the row; enabling the particular user to identify one or more conversations in the first list of conversations, and to mark the identified one or more conversations as belonging to a particular category while continuing to display at least a portion of the first list of conversations, which includes the identified one or more conversations; and sending to the client system for display a second list of conversations, the second list comprising only conversations marked as belonging to the particular category.