Patent ID: 7194516
Filing Date: 2007-03-20
Classification: G06F,G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. In a computer system that is network connectable along with one or more other computer systems to a network, a method presenting message related data at a common messaging interface such that the presented message related data can be accessed more efficiently, the method comprising: an act of receiving query criteria for a message related query, the query criteria being received at the common messaging interface; an act of submitting a message related query to an item database in accordance with the query criteria; an act of receiving a plurality of portions of message related data that satisfy the query criteria, the plurality of portions of message related data including at least a first portion of message related data and including at least a second portion of message related, the first portion of message related data having one or more property fields that are defined in accordance with a first message extension schema differently from one or more property fields of the second portion of message related data that are defined in accordance with a second message extension schema ,the first portion of message related data and the second portion of message related data also having one or more common property fields defined in accordance with a message schema; and an act of displaying at least a link to each of the received portions of message related data at the common messaging interface such that different portions of message related data that have one or more differently defined property fields are displayed together.