User interface and method for viewing short messages on a wireless device
AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorMichael A. Maguire
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Abstract
A method and electronic device. An electronic message is received at the communication device where the electronic message having an address associated therewith. An input is detected at the communication device to display the electronic message. The electronic message is displayed on a message viewer of the communication device. The electronic message is displayed chronologically in association with at least one previously sent or previously received electronic message where the at least one previously sent or previously received electronic message each has an associated address that matches the associated address of the electronic message.
Claims15
A method at a communication device, the method comprising:
- receiving an electronic message at the communication device, the electronic message having an address associated therewith;
- detecting an input at the communication device to display the electronic message;
- and
- displaying the electronic message on a message viewer of the communication device, the electronic message being displayed chronologically in association with at least one previously sent or previously received electronic message, the at least one previously sent or previously received electronic message each having an associated address that matches the associated address of the electronic message.
A communication device comprising:
- a processor;
- a memory communicatively coupled to the processor;
- a message viewer;
- a message receiver coupled to the processor that when operating receives an electronic message, the electronic message having an address associated therewith
- a message display processor coupled to the processor that when operating:
- detects an input to display the electronic message;
- and
- displays the electronic message on the message viewer, the electronic message being displayed chronologically in association with at least one previously sent or previously received electronic message where the at least one previously sent or previously received electronic message each has an associated address that matches the associated address of the electronic message.
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions for operating a communication device, the computer executable instructions comprising instructions for:
- receiving an electronic message at the communication device, the electronic message having an address associated therewith;
- detecting an input at the communication device to display the electronic message;
- and
- displaying the electronic message on a message viewer of the communication device, the electronic message being displayed chronologically in association with at least one previously sent or previously received electronic message, the at least one previously sent or previously received electronic message each having an associated address that matches the associated address of the electronic message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.