Patent ID: 8910262

Claim:
A system, comprising: a device including a memory with a management application installed thereon, wherein the management application comprises: a manager mechanism of a manager module configured to generate an umbrella data structure having a generated user account that uses first and second messaging account credentials to access respective first and second user accounts of a plurality of user accounts and associate at least one communication service as a messaging account with the plurality of user accounts; an interface module that generates a user interface for the generated user account that presents the plurality of user accounts associated with the first and second user messaging account credentials and that modifies the user interface based on a selected user account to present a selected account display including the selected user account, messaging accounts associated with the selected user account, and the service information relative to the messaging accounts of the selected user account, wherein the manager mechanism identifies the at least one communication service for the generated user account based on the first and second messaging account credentials, wherein the manager mechanism polls service information from the at least one associated communication service, and wherein the manager module includes an authentication mechanism that verifies the first and second messaging account credentials when the manager module associates the at least one communication service with the first and second user accounts by performing an authentication sequence with the associated communication service.