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Christina M Meyer

Blaine J Carpenter

Joy Yun-Jung Chen

Elizabeth Ann Holz

Kelly Elizabeth Rollin

Choon-mun Hooi

Punit Narendra Java

Marcelo Daniel Truffat

Eric S Hamilton

Zhaoqing Ma

Alexander Darrow

Joseph T Wyman

Nathan Gunderson

Steve Chang

Leslie Cindy Chen

Michael Anthony Affronti

Rubaiyat Khan

Rikinkumar Ashwin Shah

Jaclyn Konzelmann

Ginger Elizabeth Tien

An aggregate display of contact data from internal and external sources is provided. Contact data associated with at least one contact is obtained from a plurality of sources, including at least an internal source and an external source. The obtained contact data is processed to generate an aggregated collection of contact data. The aggregated collection of contact data is stored. A display of the aggregated collection of contact data is displayed in a single, interactive interface.

Providing an aggregate display of contact data from internal and external sources

A single communication application can display an initial modality view associated with the group communication on a canvas of a communication application user interface. The initial modality view can be one of multiple available views. The single communication application can receive a selection to display a different from the initial modality view. Each active user in the group communication can be on a different computing device with different active instances of the single communication application which are each configured to switch independently of each other active instances of the single communication application running on different computing devices to modality views that are different from the initial modality view. The communication application can display the selected modality view on the canvas by transitioning from the initial modality view.

Managing modality views on conversation canvas

A communication application displays a modality view that may be one of a collaboration, a gallery, or a messaging view on a conversation canvas. The application may display an initial view according a modality selection by the user. A user is enabled to select a next view from the set by providing a user action such as a tap, swipe action, etc. The application dynamically generates the next modality view according to the initial view. Common participants and common contexts are used to configure the next view. Subsequent to configuration, the application displays the next modality view on the conversation canvas by transitioning from the initial view. The application retains session information from the initial view to restore the initial view session if the user selects to return to the initial view.

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