SYNCHRONISED, CONVERSATION-CENTRIC MESSAGE LIST AND MESSAGE READING PANE Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC G06Q10/10 H04L12/58 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: method comprises organising a plurality of messages according conversation; providing a list view of the plurality of messages organised according to conversation; providing a content view of the plurality of messages organised according conversation; presenting a unified user interface simultaneously displaying the list view and the content view; performing bidirectional synchronisation between the list view and the content view, wherein the bidirectional synchronisation comprises: indicating a message within the list view as selected in response to a corresponding message selected in the content view, displaying a corresponding message as selected in the content view such that the selected message is opened for reading in the content view, and indicating a message in the content view as selected in response to a corresponding message selected in the list view, wherein the selected corresponding message in the list view indicates a position in the reply structure of the selected message in the content view; and displaying a list view column within the list view.

EFFECT: faster message location.

16 cl, 5 dwg