What's with the "recents" circle?

Another new iOS feature I have a question about... when I double press the home button to bring up all the currently open apps (all the ones running in the background), there is now a circle above them with the letters SM in the middle, the word "recents" above it and my first name below it. If I slide it to the left, a little "messages" icon appears. What is this for? Is it supposed to show recent messages? Or is there more to it than that?
Message was edited by: SongMom to fix typos

I'm interested in this too, kongakut2012.  I can't see an envelope either.  I discovered that the number probably meant that I had a missed call, but when I cleared all recent calls (including the missed one) the number didn't go away.  So -- where's the envelope, please???

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