Aggregated, interactive communication timeline

摘要

Described is a technology by which an interactive timeline user interface shows communication data aggregated from various sources (e.g., a telephone service, a website, an application and/or the like) in time order. To reduce the number of items in the timeline, certain items may be combined into a compressed item, e.g., items from the same source and/or of the same type may be rolled up into a rolled up item. The user may also interact to reply to a data item. For example, an editor may be provided upon interaction with a data item in the timeline, and the type of reply that is sent may automatically match the type of data item, (e.g., a text message reply to a text message).

主权项

1. In a computing environment, a method comprising:
receiving communication data from one or more communication sources, the communication data comprising:
a first piece of communication data comprising a first data item and one or more second data items; anda second piece of communication data comprising a third data item associated therewith; aggregating the first and one or more second data items associated with the first piece of communication data; compressing the one or more second data items associated with the first piece of communication data into a compressed item; and presenting simultaneously, in time order, in an integrated timeline on a timeline interface:
the first data item of the first piece of communication data and the compressed item as a first timeline item; andthe third data item of the second piece of communication data as a second timeline item.