Method and system for updating message threads
AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorsNeil Patrick Adams, Raymond Paul Vander Veen
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Abstract
A method for updating an electronic mail (“email”) message presented to a user on a display screen of a data processing system, the email message belonging to a thread of email messages received by the data processing system, the method comprising: determining whether one or more of the email messages in the thread was received after the email message is opened on the display screen; and, if so, displaying an update message on the display screen indicating that one or more of the email messages in the thread was so received.
Claims20
A server system, the server system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory coupled to the processor, the memory including instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to:
- display a compose screen for composition of a reply to a message and an indicator associated with the message;
- detect arrival of a new message;
- and
- while the compose screen is displayed:
- in response to a determination that the new message belongs to a message thread to which the message belongs, modify the indicator based on the new message.
A processor-implemented method comprising:
- displaying a compose screen for composition of a reply to a message and an indicator associated with the message;
- detecting arrival of a new message;
- and
- while the compose screen is displayed:
- in response to a determination that the new message belongs to a message thread to which the message belongs, modifying the indicator based on the new message.
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- display a compose screen for composition of a reply to a message and an indicator associated with the message;
- detect arrival of a new message;
- and
- while the compose screen is displayed:
- in response to a determination that the new message belongs to a message thread to which the message belongs, modify the indicator based on the new message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.