US 11,902,232 B1
Email conversation linking
Ivo van Doorn, The Hague (NL); and Floor Mesters, The Hague (NL)
Assigned to Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed by Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed on Nov. 18, 2014, as Appl. No. 14/546,728.
Int. Cl. H04L 51/08 (2022.01); G06F 3/04842 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 51/08 (2013.01) [G06F 3/04842 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for linking an email to an existing email conversation, comprising:
identifying a first email conversation comprising a first email and at least one reply to the first email;
presenting the first email conversation among a plurality of email conversations in a user interface;
receiving input via the user interface, the input indicative of a selection of the first email conversation from among the plurality of email conversations and creation of a second email, wherein the input indicative of a selection is made at a conversation level without identifying a particular email in the first email conversation and wherein creating the second email comprises creating a second email conversation based on information derived from the first email conversation;
generating an identifier for the second email, wherein the identifier indicates that the second email comprises a different conversation from the first email conversation;
receiving input indicative of linking the first email conversation and the second email wherein the second email is not a reply to a message in the first email conversation; and
sending the second email to at least some recipients in the first conversation.