The Trade Desk, Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Christine Anderson

Stas A Goldobin

Lina M Davis

Mark A Patterson, Jr

Erez Kikin-Gil

Tyler J Schnoebelen

Thomas Jan Stovicek

Sara Liu Yang

Sandra Hirsh

Wendy Chan

Nancy Jane Bell

Jackie Sandoval

Omar H Shahine

A contextual navigation and action user experience framework that facilitates workflows across multiple contexts and levels of object hierarchy is disclosed. Exemplary features include a swapper interface, an action toolbar with contextual buttons and contextual tabs, and a toolkit that provides an overview portal to view alerts, cross reference information, and perform actions on objects and insights that are important to the user across an entire product suite.

Computing network for implementing a contextual navigation and action user experience framework and flattening deep information hierarchies

Providing a user interface (UI) on a web page. A toolbar section is defined on the web page. The web page includes a content section being different and separate from the toolbar section, and the content section displays additional content of the web page. One or more groups are specified to include one or more action controls associated therewith. Each of the specified groups has a group identifier associated therewith. The one or more action controls are displayed according to the specified groups in the toolbar section of the web page. Each of the one or more displayed action controls includes properties associated therewith, and the included properties define at least one of the following: a name of the action control, a link of the action control, the group identifier of the action control, and a classification identifier of the action control.

Extensible and application-adaptable toolbar for web services

Focusing electronic mail messages in a list of messages. Category information is received for classifying particular e-mail messages or senders of the messages in the list of e-mail messages according to a category. The method also includes setting a status data associated with each of the particular messages. The status data indicates the category classified by the user. A first instruction is received from the user for focusing the particular messages according to the category. The particular messages having the status data therewith in the list are focused collectively without altering a preexisting order of the messages in the list.

Inbox with focused messages according to categories

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