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

Claim 11:
12. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
storing, within a cross-platform message storage, data associated with messages transmitted from or received by a plurality of messaging applications;
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,
accessing, based on the one or more user-specified search terms and one or more default search terms, the cross-platform message storage to acquire cross-platform message data that includes a plurality of messages responsive to the request from the user,
generating, based on the acquired cross-platform message data, one or more interface elements for display at a unified interface of the client device, and
causing the one or more interface elements to be displayed at the unified interface,
wherein the one or more interface elements displayed at the unified interface include a first interface element that provides a summary of a first subset of messages, out of the plurality of messages in the message data, that are from a first messaging application.