PROVIDING CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION AND ENABLING GROUP COMMUNICATION FOR PARTICIPANTS IN A CONVERSATION

摘要

Configurations for providing a widget that displays participants involved in the conversation thread and provides different graphical elements (e.g. buttons) to initiate one click actions to start a group chat create a meeting on each participant s calendar or start a new conversation thread. In the case of the group chat the subject technology can include the contents of the group chat session as an additional electronic message in the conversation thread. In one example the widget is implemented as a floating toolbar that can be positioned in the user interface while in the conversation thread view.