Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090089381 | PENDING AND EXCLUSIVE ELECTRONIC MAIL INBOX - Distinguishing electronic mail (e-mail) messages for a user. An e-mail inbox is provided to include one or more e-mail messages therein. A first section of the inbox is specified. The first section includes a set of the one or more messages, and the set of the one or more messages is indicative of an unknown status. An second section of the inbox is provided, and the second section includes the remaining set of the one or more messages. The remaining set of the messages is indicative of a known status. | 04-02-2009 |
20090089798 | ELECTRONIC MAIL INBOX WITH FOCUSED E-MAILS ACCORDING TO CATEGORIES - Focusing electronic mail messages in a list of messages. Category information is received for classifying particular e-mail messages or senders of the messages in the list of e-mail messages according to a category. The method also includes setting a status data associated with each of the particular messages. The status data indicates the category classified by the user. A first instruction is received from the user for focusing the particular messages according to the category. The particular messages having the status data therewith in the list are focused collectively without altering a preexisting order of the messages in the list. | 04-02-2009 |
20090271735 | Extensible and Application-Adaptable Toolbar for Web Services - Providing a user interface (UI) on a web page. A toolbar section is defined on the web page. The web page includes a content section being different and separate from the toolbar section, and the content section displays additional content of the web page. One or more groups are specified to include one or more action controls associated therewith. Each of the specified groups has a group identifier associated therewith. The one or more action controls are displayed according to the specified groups in the toolbar section of the web page. Each of the one or more displayed action controls includes properties associated therewith, and the included properties define at least one of the following: a name of the action control, a link of the action control, the group identifier of the action control, and a classification identifier of the action control. | 10-29-2009 |
20090313555 | Automatic Friends Selection and Association Based on Events - Method for automatically generating a friend subset from user contacts based on events. Social events data associated with the user are received and the received events data defines a social connection between a contact in a contact list and the user at a future occurrence. Contacts from the user contact list are identified, and each of the identified contacts includes an identity information associated therewith. It is determined whether one of the identified contacts from the contact list is associated with the defined social connection. A friend subset friend contacts is selected when it is determined that the friend contacts are associated with the social connection. The selected friend subset is displayed to the user on a web page. In response to a selection of one of the displayed friend subset from the user, the social events data of the social connection is provided to the user. | 12-17-2009 |
20100057859 | EMAIL CONFIRMATION PAGE FOR SOCIAL NETWORK NOTIFICATIONS - A communication confirmation message provides social networking events in combination with information regarding addresses to a member. The message can be used to suggest additional social network friends to members of a social network. The communication confirmation message is utilized to provide additional information on the social network member's friends, information from third party social networks, and recommendations to add individuals or second parties with whom the social network member communicates as friends. | 03-04-2010 |
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20110202879 | GRAPHICAL CONTEXT SHORT MENU - A system and method for displaying a graphical context short menu on a display screen of a mobile communication device. The method includes displaying information associated with a contact, receiving a request for a menu and displaying, in response to the request, a graphical context short menu including menu items based on context associated with the displayed information. The graphical context short menu can include an icon associated with the contact. The icon can be an image of the contact, an avatar, and name of the contact. The graphical context short menu can include nine (9) menu options with the icon in the center of the menu. The graphical context short menu can also include a more menu items in the bottom right of the menu. | 08-18-2011 |
20110231499 | MANAGEMENT AND DISPLAY OF GROUPED MESSAGES ON A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A system and method for managing a plurality of messages stored at a mobile communication device, groups messages based on a common subject line or another quasi-unique identifier, and displays message group entries representing distinct message groups in a user interface. The message group entries may be displayed in association with an icon representing multiple message states associated with individual messages comprised within that message group. The multiple message states may include all messages being read, all messages being unread, a most recently received message being unread while others are read, and a most recently received message being read while order messages are unread. | 09-22-2011 |
20110260970 | Portable Electronic Device and Method of Controlling Same - A method includes displaying a shutter adjacent to a boundary of an information display region on a display of a portable electronic device, the information display region for displaying first information; receiving an input associated with the shutter; and displaying second information. | 10-27-2011 |
20120072507 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF POSTING MESSAGES TO DIFFERENT MESSAGING SERVICES - Methods of providing message content data to a plurality of electronic messaging services. The methods include generating, for each of a plurality of electronic messaging services identified in instructions to post new message content, a corresponding instruction data set, each instruction data set executable by at least one processor associated with the corresponding electronic messaging service to cause the new message content to be posted; and providing a generated instruction data set to at least one processor associated with at least one of the plurality of electronic messaging services. Media and devices for carrying out the methods are also disclosed. | 03-22-2012 |
20120311487 | AUTOMATICALLY WRAPPING ZOOMED CONTENT - An electronic device receives a request to zoom content displayed in a display screen. A width corresponding to the display screen is determined. The zoomed content is wrapped to cause the zoomed content to fit within the determined width. | 12-06-2012 |
20130033523 | ORIENTATION-DEPENDENT PROCESSING OF INPUT FILES BY AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device may have a display screen usable in at least two orientations, such as landscape orientation and portrait orientation. Provided in this disclosure is selective rendering of a structured document according to the orientation of the display screen. A structured document such as as webpage is rendered (as a first rendered document) for display according to the document object model structure and optionally styles provided with the webpage. The same webpage is rendered (as a second rendered document) by removing or replacing selected objets in the document object model structure, or by applying different style directives than included in the originally received webpage. When the display screen is in a first orientation, the first rendered document is displayed. When a change in orientation of the display screen to the second orientation is detected, the second rendered document is displayed. | 02-07-2013 |
20130097173 | Methods and Apparatus for Searching a Message Store - Methods and apparatus for searching a message store on a portable device are described herein. The methods allow a plurality of possible search criteria to be generated and displayed. One or more of the possible search criteria may be selected and added to a search string that is used to search the message store. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097526 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REPLY MESSAGE COMPOSITION - An electronic device and method provide for composition of reply messages within a message listing display. A message listing screen including a message listing and input field is displayed, and while the screen is displayed, content is entered in the input field and a send command is detected. In response to the send command, the entered content is sent in a reply message in reply to a selected message in the message listing. The selected message for which the reply is intended may be identified after the send command is detected. The message listing screen can include a preview of the selected message. The message format for the content to be sent in reply may be selected to be different from the message format of the selected message. | 04-18-2013 |
20140022285 | HANDHELD DEVICE WITH ERGONOMIC DISPLAY FEATURES - A handheld device with ergonomic display features, and method there for, are provided. Data is provided at a rectangular touchscreen display. When the touchscreen display is in a landscape orientation, at least one taskbar is provided along at least a portion of one or more short edges of the touchscreen display. When the touchscreen display changed to a portrait orientation: the at least one taskbar is moved to a bottom one of the short edges, when no virtual keyboard is provided, the at least one taskbar is moved to a top one of the short edges when the virtual keyboard is provided at the bottom one of the short edges. Hence, ergonomic access is provided to controls most likely to be used when he touchscreen display is held towards the bottom. | 01-23-2014 |
20140222933 | MANAGEMENT AND DISPLAY OF GROUPED MESSAGES ON A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A system and method for managing a plurality of messages stored at a mobile communication device, groups messages based on a common subject line or another quasi-unique identifier, and displays message group entries representing distinct message groups in a user interface. The message group entries may be displayed in association with an icon representing multiple message states associated with individual messages comprised within that message group. The multiple message states may include all messages being read, all messages being unread, a most recently received message being unread while others are read, and a most recently received message being read while order messages are unread. | 08-07-2014 |