Thursday, December 02, 2010

Next Generation Messaging ...

1. "Object Threading" ... Once an email is generated all replies to it are embedded into the original email creating a thread accessed via hovering over the portion highlighted by the responding party when they crafted the response. This portion would blink at you whenever new information is added to the thread by anyone on the email to/copy-to for that thread hierarchy. When crafting a response to any portion of an email one would highlight the section of interest and select reply to selected individuals, email, text, chat(if receiving party(s) are online, and a topic name (default is abbreviated portion of highlighted content) for the new thread.

2. "Identity Mail" .. Messages can be filtered at the receiving end automatically to separate any mail from senders who have not proven their identity on the mobile me system (whether or not they are mobile me users or not). So, if you are not a mobile me user and try sending a message to mobile me user an automatic reply will be sent to that party linking and instructing them to register and validate their identity so they can send to mobile me users primary email inbox. Have special sites for commercial registrations and individual registrations. Allow users to decide how to customize their filtering standards

3. "Immersion Bubbles" ... When new information is available due to replies within any section of the email, simply hovering over the part of the message replied to will unveil via a bubble-preview popup-access with embedded icons which activate different types of deeper views, editors, and summaries for discovering, previewing/full-viewing, and replying (email, text, or chat threads are all contained as threads here).

4. "LogIcons" ... Each message has a translucent 3D object (like gemstones) next to it with another 3D image inside of it ( like a human form for personal mail, building for commercial mail, ... etc). Hovering over the Gem enlarges it allowing the user to hover over different portions of the embedded form. If you hover over the human head you will be delivered full summary information of all the people in all embedded threads. If you hover over the hand you will be delivered summary information of all written threads organized by topic (see 1. above). If you hover over a foot you will be delivered summary information of all routing/mail-exchange information regarding all threads and organized by topics. etc etc - Summary information can be drilled into directly from this area and therefore opening the message is not even required to drill into the chains and find desired data.

5. "Enterprise Born" ... Target the enterprise right away since they have the most to gain by having only 1 email required for each project...etc. Project mail, corporate bulletins, service notifications, alerts, etc etc would all have different 3D objects next to them thereby allowing a quick shake of the mouse to separate the inbox into layers where the priority mails float to the top quickly ... allow for predefined symbol categories like gemstones, animals, geometric designs, etc etc

6. "Communication Presence" ... Anyone added onto an email or any embedded thread who is online and active in the system at the time is indicated as such and many communications can be added by chatting against the section of interest - of course the chat thread is embedded into the email at the section where the conversation takes place.

7. "Floodlight" ... Allow for high power searches where information needed from other emails, the web, and/or local files can be found together with and in relation to thread topics and attached if desired as links or objects within the message.
8. "Intrinsic Subjecting Revelation" ... If you are typing an email to someone you have given authorization for "Subject Revelation" and they happen to be online; they can see what you are typing in near real-time and may choose to highlight a portion of it and begin a chat response thereby eliminating the need to continue in many cases - so now you are able to chat without having to track a chat window and monitor for responses since if they are not responding an email is formed.

9. "The Gist" ... Allow a certain class of email - perhaps the "Diamond symbol" require a who what when where why and How in order to be delivered. this way important tasks cannot be overlooked and can quickly be printed in summary form whether you have 5000 emails in you inbox or not -- if someone asked for something with this method you can know about it quickly by generating a summary of all items using this template.

10. "Proximity Awareness" ... Allow the system to gather and display a container with all email containing threads relative to the current context of your proximity. So if you are a sales person and you become near a client (who is also GPS enabled), all emails and their embedded threads and summary information is automatically moved into an easy to find and view container for quick reference. If you want to set a reminder it no longer has to be a time. It can be a place, time&place, distance from a certain person, etc etc ... Alerts can be set to activate reminders based on time, place, time and place, proximity to individuals or any entities, when any event occurs the system is aware of 9like messages sent/received, tasks completed, etc etc ...