US Patent:
20100273457, Oct 28, 2010
Inventors:
Karen Freeman - Toronto, CA
David Robert Macphie - Toronto, CA
Nasahn Adam Sheppard - Mill Valley CA, US
Jason Edward Short - San Francisco CA, US
Timothy Foster Wallack - New York NY, US
International Classification:
H04W 4/12
G06F 3/01
G06F 15/16
H04L 9/32
G06F 21/00
US Classification:
4554122, 715752, 726 7, 455413
Abstract:
A method for notifying a user of a computer having a display about incoming messages stored in an inbox. The method includes the steps of receiving attribute information describing attributes of a plurality of messages in the inbox and generating message visualization structures associated with the respective messages and determining at least one non-textual visual feature of each message visualization structure on the basis of an attribute of a respective message. The method also includes rendering on the display the visualization structures within a graphical environment in which the message visualization structures convey information about the messages and their respective attributes in a non-textual list manner.