Patent ID: 11947603
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 14:
15. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
receiving, via a client device and from a user of the client device, a request to view messages; and
in response to receiving the request from the user:
processing the request to determine one or more user-specified search terms,
acquiring, based on the one or more user-specified search terms and one or more default search terms, cross-platform message data that includes a plurality of messages received from different messaging applications,
generating, based on the cross-platform message data, one or more interface elements for display at a unified interface of the client device,
causing the unified interface to be rendered via the client device, and
causing the one or more interface elements to be displayed at the unified interface,
wherein the one or more user-specified search terms include a keyword identifying an entity, and
wherein the one or more interface elements displayed at the unified interface include a merged interface element that merges a first subset of messages, out of the plurality of messages in the message data, based on the keyword.