Patent ID: 8769418

Claim:
A method, comprising: registering, by a computing device, an identity for use with a first communication service, the identity being used when communicating via a second communication service different from the first communication service; sending, by the computing device, a first message to a first identity; sending, by the computing device, a second message to a second identity; and in response to determining, based on local address book data, that the first identity and the second identity are both associated with a first person, displaying, by the computing device, the first message and the second message in a single conversation window, wherein the first communication service is a messaging service provided at least in part by a software application executed by the computing device, the messaging service facilitating transmission of messages in accordance with one or more protocols, wherein the identity registered for use with the first communication service includes a handle and a denotation of the second communication service on which the handle is used to communicate, wherein the identity registered for use with the first communication service is at least one of a telephone number associated with a Short Message Service (SMS) communication service different from the messaging service, an email address associated with an email communication service different from the messaging service, and a username associated with a social networking service different from the messaging service, and wherein the messaging service is further provided at least in part by at least one message server that is configured to store registration information and process messages associated with the first communication service, the at least one message server being further configured to cause, when processing at least one message to be sent to a recipient identity that is not registered with the first communication service, a connection to be established to a communication service associated with the recipient identity.