Aggregate electronic mail message handling

Abstract

Techniques for aggregating one or more electronic mail messages (e.g., a subscribed to email) are described, including receiving at an aggregating domain, electronic mail communicated from another domain, parsing the electronic mail to selectively extract content identifiers for content (e.g., text, images, audio, video, media) included in the electronic mail, generating a tile object from selectively extracted content identifiers, and displaying the tile object on a display grid for viewing by a subscriber (e.g., user) of one or more of the electronic mail messages. A plurality of tiles may be generated for a plurality of different email messages and the display grid may display all or a portion of the plurality of tiles. Electronic mail messages may include a subscription to the aggregating domain that was elected by a user as an option presented by a publisher of a unsubscribe page in response to the user's unsubscribe request.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method, comprising:
 receiving an electronic mail message at an aggregating domain;   parsing the electronic mail message to identify content for tiling;   extracting identified content into one or more content types;   deconstructing the one or more content types into a tile format, the tile format configured for content rotation of at least one of the one or more content types;   generating a tile using the tile format;   associating the tile with an account of a subscriber to the aggregating domain; and   generating a grid view configured for display on a display system, the grid view including the tile.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein content rotation of the at least one of the one or more content types in the tile is initiated by activating the tile using a user interface system coupled with the display system, and is terminated by de-activating the tile using the user interface system. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 2 , wherein activating the tile comprises flying over or hovering over the tile using the user interface system, and de-activating the tile comprises ceasing the flying over or the hovering over the tile. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the one or more content types are selected from the group consisting of text, still images, moving images, audio, video, and media. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the receiving the electronic mail message comprises a subscribed to domain electronically communicating the electronic mail message to the aggregating domain using a subscriber addresses associated with the aggregating domain. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the electronic mail message is addressed to a plurality of different subscribers to the aggregating domain and the tile or a copy of the tile is associated with the account of each of the plurality of different subscribers. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the electronic mail message includes HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and HTML tags are used in the parsing, the extracting or both. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the tile includes HyperText Markup Language (HTML). 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the grid view includes a plurality of tiles arranged in a grid configuration. 
     
     
         10 . A method, comprising:
 receiving an electronic mail message at an aggregating domain;   parsing the electronic mail message to identify content for tiling;   extracting identified content into one or more content types;   deconstructing the one or more content types into a tile format, the tile format configured for content rotation of at least one of the one or more content types;   generating a tile using the tile format;   associating the tile with an account of a subscriber to the aggregating domain; and   generating a carousel view configured for display on a display system, the grid view including the tile.   
     
     
         11 . The method of  claim 10 , wherein the carousel view comprises a plurality of tiles arranged in a carousel configuration, a selected tile of the plurality of tiles is displayed with visual emphasis at a first position in the carousel configuration, un-selected tiles in the plurality of tiles are positioned around a periphery of the first position and are displayed with visual de-emphasis, and wherein content rotation of the at least one of the one or more content types is initiated in the selected tile. 
     
     
         12 . The method of  claim 11 , wherein the first position comprises a centralized position in the carousel configuration. 
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 11 , wherein a user interface system coupled with the display system is configured to select one of the plurality of tiles to become the selected tile and is configured to cause the selected tile to become an un-selected tile by selecting another one of the plurality of tiles to become the selected tile. 
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 10 , wherein the electronic mail message includes HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and HTML tags are used in the parsing, the extracting or both. 
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 10 , wherein the tile includes HyperText Markup Language (HTML).