Patent ID: 7346848

Claim:
A computing system comprising: a single application program configured to provide: a single navigable window; multiple different functionalities internal to the single application program to which the single navigable window can be navigated by a user; a navigation model that is configured to seamlessly manage the user's navigation activities between the multiple different functionalities within the single application program; navigation instrumentalities comprising browser-like navigation buttons associated with the single navigable window, the navigation instrumentalities being configured for use by the user to navigate the single window inside individual functionalities and to the different functionalities, wherein the multiple different functionalities comprise two or more of the following: a web-browser functionality; a planner functionality; an email functionality; a contacts functionality; and a word processing functionality, and wherein the single navigable window comprises, for at least two of the multiple different functionalities, a command area having a specific command for each of said at least two of the multiple different functionalities and a global command for both of said at least two of the multiple different functionalities, each specific command being displayed in, usable in, and performing a command specific to only one of said at least two of the multiple different functionalities; and the global command being displayed in both of said at least two of the multiple different functionalities but performing a different command when displayed in one of said at least two of the multiple different functionalities than in another of said at least two of the multiple different functionalities.