An improved messaging system (100, 900) enables a message recipient to take notes electronically while retrieving messages, such as by electronically extracting and separately recording a portion of a received message in a scratchpad area (250, 1050) of his or her mailbox (111, 911) or by dictating into...http://www.google.com.au/patents/US5926524?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5926524 - Messaging system scratchpad facility
