System and method for managing informational objects on mobile devices
View Patent ↗A system and method for managing informational objects on a mobile device. A user-selectable option is displayed to a user of the mobile device. The option is associated with an action to be performed on informational objects sharing at least one specified characteristic (e.g., storing all e-mail messages that are part of the same thread in a folder, generating a distribution list of contacts belonging to a specified group). After the user has selected the option, the application identifies informational objects having the at least one specified characteristic and performs the action on the identified objects.
1. A method of managing a plurality of electronic mail (e-mail) messages, the method performed by an application executing on a mobile device, the method comprising:
determining a selected e-mail message;
after determining the selected e-mail message, displaying a user-selectable option at the mobile device in response to an invocation to display a menu of user-selectable options for the selected e-mail message, the user-selectable option associated with an action to automatically store:
the selected e-mail message and
at least one non-selected e-mail message, stored in one or more source folders, that has a subject field containing a text element that is present in the subject field of the selected e-mail message,
wherein the selected e-mail message is either an e-mail message being viewed or an e-mail message selected from a displayed grouping of e-mail messages;
determining when the user-selectable option is selected after determining the selected e-mail message;
identifying the at least one non-selected e-mail message stored in the one or more source folders, wherein the at least one non-selected e-mail message is identified by the presence of the text element in the subject field of the at least one non-selected e-mail message, and wherein the identifying is in response to a determination of the selected e-mail message and a selection of the user-selectable option associated with the action; and
in response to the selection of the user-selectable option associated with the action,
creating a folder that is named according to the text element present in the subject field of each of the selected e-mail message and the identified non-selected e-mail messages, and
after creating the folder, storing data associated with said selected e-mail message and said identified non-selected e-mail messages in the created folder.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the selected e-mail message and said identified non-selected e-mail messages are part of a same thread.
3. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions for execution on a mobile device, wherein the instructions, when executed, perform acts of a method comprising:
determining a selected e-mail message;
after determining the selected e-mail message, displaying a user-selectable option at the mobile device in response to an invocation to display a menu of user-selectable options for the selected e-mail message, the user-selectable option associated with an action to automatically store:
the selected e-mail message and
at least one non-selected e-mail message stored, in one or more source folders, that has a subject field containing a text element that is present in the subject field of the selected e-mail message,
wherein the selected e-mail message is either an e-mail message being viewed or an e-mail message selected from a displayed grouping of e-mail messages;
determining when the user-selectable option is selected after determining the selected e-mail message;
identifying the at least one non-selected e-mail message stored in the one or more source folders, wherein the at least one non-selected e-mail message is identified by the presence of the text element in the subject field of the at least one non-selected e-mail message, and wherein the identifying is in response to a determination of the selected e-mail message and a selection of the user-selectable option associated with the action; and
in response to the selection of the user-selectable option associated with the action,
creating a folder that is named according to the text element present in the subject field of each of the selected e-mail message and the identified non-selected e-mail messages, and
after creating the folder, storing data associated with said selected e-mail message and said identified non-selected e-mail messages in the created folder.
4. A system for managing a plurality of electronic mail (e-mail) messages, the system comprising a microprocessor and at least one memory, wherein in operation, the microprocessor executes instructions of a method comprising acts of:
determining a selected e-mail message;
after determining the selected e-mail message, displaying a user-selectable option at the mobile device in response to an invocation to display a menu of user-selectable options for the selected e-mail message, the user-selectable option associated with an action to automatically store:
the selected e-mail message and
at least one non-selected e-mail message, stored in one or more source folders, that has a subject field containing a text element that is present in the subject field of the selected e-mail message,
wherein the selected e-mail message is either an e-mail message being viewed or an e-mail message selected from a displayed grouping of e-mail messages;
determining when the user-selectable option is selected after determining the selected e-mail message;
identifying the at least one non-selected e-mail message stored in the one or more source folders, wherein the at least one non-selected e-mail message is identified by the presence of the text element in the subject field of the at least one non-selected e-mail message, and wherein the identifying is in response to a determination of the selected e-mail message and a selection of the user-selectable option associated with the action; and
in response to the selection of the user-selectable option associated with the action,
creating a folder that is named according to the text element present in the subject field of each of the selected e-mail message and the identified non-selected e-mail messages, and
after creating the folder, storing data associated with said selected e-mail message and said identified non-selected e-mail messages in the created folder.
5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the selected e-mail message and said identified non-selected e-mail messages are part of a same thread.
6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 3 , wherein the selected e-mail message and said identified non-selected e-mail messages are part of a same thread.