Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Elizabeth I Yang

Baskaran Dharmarajan

Neel Ishwar Murarka

David Dawson

Dane Alexander Glasgow

Marek L Gorecki

Mohammad Rafiushan Khan

Hyder Ali

Dennis Takchi Cheung

Gad Ittah

Nikita Shah

Providing integrated multi-session instant messaging in a single instant messaging window. A user interface has an instant messaging window for displaying a plurality of conversation panes representative of concurrent instant messaging sessions between a local user and a plurality of remote users. Each conversation pane represents one of the messaging sessions. A plurality of message components correspond to the conversations panes so that each message component corresponds to one conversation pane. Each message component is arranged in the corresponding conversation pane and displays text from an instant message. The conversation display area displays at least two of the conversation panes linearly along the height of the window so that the message components arranged in the at least two conversation panes are simultaneously viewable.

Simultaneous instant messaging in single window

A method and system for customizing a search of a data source linked to a computer in response to a search request from a user. A search tool application (STA) is executed on a client computer in response to the search request received from the user. The STA determines the context of a software application active when the STA is executed. The STA determines a scope of data to search based on the determined context. A user-interface is responsive to a search term received from a user to initiates a search the determined scope of data for content that matches the received search term. The results of the search are displayed in the UI.

Automatic filtering and scoping of search results

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Elizabeth I Yang