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US 2004/0073614 A1Published application
System and method for presence enabled electronic mail folders
AssigneeSiemens Communications, Inc.
InventorJeffrey M. Blohm
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Abstract
A telecommunications system includes a plurality of network clients including electronic or multimedia messaging clients. The electronic messaging clients are adapted to provide presence information and to display such presence information in association with received messages. The display of messages may then be sorted according to the presence information.
Claims22
A telecommunications system, comprising:
- a network;
- a plurality of network messaging clients;
- wherein at least one of said plurality of network clients is adapted to provide presence information to others of said plurality of network clients responsive to an electronic message.
An electronic messaging device, comprising:
- a graphical user interface module;
- a sorting criteria module for setting presence sorting criteria on a display controlled via said GUI module;
- and
- a presence information module for providing presence information to other electronic messaging devices.
1 more element
A telecommunications method, comprising:
- providing presence information associated with an electronic message;
- and
- displaying said presence information via a graphical user interface.
A telecommunications method, comprising:
- providing a network;
- providing a plurality of network messaging clients;
- wherein at least one of said plurality of network clients is adapted to provide presence information to others of said plurality of network clients.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.