发明名称 |
Body-less email for asynchronous chat-like communications and email-chat integration |
摘要 |
Described are a system and method of communicating with a user of a computing device over a network. Communications occur with a body-less electronic mail messages. The conveyed message is carried by the subject line of the body-less electronic mail message. The subject line records the temporal sequence of one or more text messages representing a chat-like email conversation between users. Each received body-less electronic mail messages appears on a display screen as a line item in a mailbox view. In one embodiment, the entire contents of the subject line are displayed in a drop-down list when a cursor is positioned over the subject column of the line item. In another embodiment, the user scrolls horizontally through contents of the subject line by positioning the cursor over a scroll bar arrow that appears at one end of the subject line column.
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申请公布号 |
US7698368(B2) |
申请公布日期 |
2010.04.13 |
申请号 |
US20030734920 |
申请日期 |
2003.12.12 |
申请人 |
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION |
发明人 |
MULLER MICHAEL J.;WEBER SARA BETH |
分类号 |
G06F15/16;H04L12/58 |
主分类号 |
G06F15/16 |
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